manmikey

Jan 1st 2026…To continue to enjoy our AI free experience it will now come will Ads…or pay us 9.99 for an Ad free AI experience.

Love from Samsung

I’d be happy to keep the ones that say:

“we notice you are in europe and we can’t use our cookies to track you so you can’t come to our website”

It’s good to know sites with policies like that to ensure I never visit them.

I recently started getting ads on my discover feed, it was the last Google thing to be ad free, it used to be a good selection of my interests and local news, I’ve turned it off now as it’s full of irrelevant crap and adverts.

We had all this back in the 1970s with “Robots and Computers will take all our jobs” scaremongering.

As factories & production lines started to use robots and CNC machines, CAD and digital imaging appeared, accounting software etc etc we were all going to lose our jobs and live a life of unemployed leisure.

Never happened.

I’m sure AI will play an important role in the future but like so many new fads it will settle into its niche and we will all be okay.

The Insider blocked Lemmy user’s from reading this article unless they pony up to get through their paywall

We’ll never know, the article is behind a paywall

The closing sentence of the article…

“as Apple customers, we shouldn’t stand for it”

Apple customers…

“Here’s my $200”

Google recently announced that it’s podcast service is shutting down and moving to YouTube music, I don’t want or need YouTube music so I’ve already moved to Podcast Republic, it has a few ads but they can be removed with a small one off payment. Google just wants to shove all it’s users into YouTube and YouTube music for maximum ads and data harvesting.

The thing is, no matter how many times big tech companies are caught out and facing inquiries and legal judgements for bending and breaking the rules, lying, doing illegal things, targeting kids, misinformation, election fixing etc etc NOTHING EVER CHANGES