alt Hacker NewsEh, people are pretty upset about the ad-driven nature of the internet which was largely spearheaded by Google.
However, I don't think the alternative would have made people any happier (and frankly they probably would be justifiably even more angry)
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rusticpenn • yesterday at 7:36 AM
Ehh, the internet was worse before Google. Google actually became popular for having a nice blank page with only the search bar. Even the ads they had later were much cleaner compared to yahoo, altavista, lycos, aol and other firms of that time.
Can you give any hypothetical examples that you have in mind. World without google and how (even more angry)