Every app has to have fucking AI now for some reason.

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      To rip off investors. If they pretend to be on the same hype train as everyone else, and lie about what their product does, there’s a chance some idiot will give them more money.

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        Fuckin’ hell, investors don’t know shit about the shit they are investing in do they, if all you need to do is slap some bullshit buzzwords on it and they’ll suck your dick.

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      I can see an infinite number of meetings with management figures and/or investors asking:

      “Everyone in tech is talking about AI and we are tech, hightech even so, are we not? So, what do we / what does your department do with AI?”

      It’s like millions of voices silently crying out in pain.

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      It’s a buzz word.
      ChatGPT came out and all the other tech companies like Google freaked the fuck out because they weren’t first to the market.
      In response they started adding AI to Google search.
      Well, Microsoft can’t let that stand either so now they’re both in a mad dash to put it in fucking everything before the other guy does.

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        So 50% success rate! I can pull 10 pp slides from that, asking for more resources to do more AI!
        Now, where’s MY COKE!?

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    I hate it so much. I want to do one simple search. Instead I get bullshit ad google links that are irrelevant, then MS MS Edge pushes me into Copilot for more garbage, which I have to mouse out of. Stract has become by search engine to get back the nostalgia of when the web wasn’t all shit

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      Thanks for the suggestion. What differences have you noticed compared to Google. Do you always find what you’re looking for. Have you tried searching niche stuff like some really old painting or an obscure compiler error etc.

      Weird that it gave me a link to franchise a taco joint when I searched for tacos near me.

      You want tacos? Open a taco shop.

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        I wouldn’t consider “tacos near me” a representative search; google specifically optimizes searching for products and especially local food.

        I just searched for “first speedrun” and the first few results are decent but wrong, and the videos, shorts, and related searches after the first 2 entries are complete garbage.

        Being served 70% links to products sucks when searching anything related to a product isn’t fun either.

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          Fair point. I don’t think it’s ready to become a default search engine as of now.

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            Oh, whoops, I wasn’t comparing Stract, I was comparing Google. Those are the reasons I don’t use Google search, I hadn’t tried Stract yet.

            After trying it, it seems cool. Not the best at broad meanings though. “Ram” returns an Indian politician as the “answer”, a site in Japanese for the first link, and then mostly results for Random Access Memory after. No reference to the Dodge Ram (thank Odin), but also no reference to male sheep.

            It also feels very anti-store, which is a nice change, but might ve an artifact of the seemingly anti-SEO stance, with random results from anywhere. Maybe that’s just the European focus?

            It also has issues with getting context from multiple keywords, and doesn’t prioritize say “street car” over pages that happen to contain both “street” and “car”. Excluding keywords with “-” works though, very nice. Quotes can help with phrases to, so " “street car” " finds exactly things called “street car” with the space. Both still miss streetcars though. Misspelling corrections are offered but not assumed, which is very nice.

            Definitely the biggest issue is the seemingly random results. This might be good if you’re searching for an exact string that is only present in a few places, but anything common and it’s a crapshoot. It’s nearly unable to find anything to do with shamrocks, prefering to find business’ named Shamrock.

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      a new version of “Clippy” and it’s just as helpful as the original.

      And somehow infinitely less charming

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      Oh, I’m somewhat familiar. Our school computer lab when setup had all windows 95 machines and I later got a xp at home so I got to play with office 2000 and such.

      Iirc it never was able to help me with something. I thought they put in a interactive mascot or something. Like a mini-game you can play with while typing a letter to your principal.

      Copilot has been little helpful sometimes though when I want to generate images of things made out of jeans.

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    AI is how we’ll extract money and knowledge from people and give it to corporations…or so the people behind the corporations think.

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    I suggest you to UBL (Unlock Bootloader) your phone & use AdAway
    Or just use Adguard if you don’t wanna UBL/Root your phone

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      ah right, unlock bootloader and break every banking app and break widevine HD playback on streaming apps

      excellent suggestion!

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        Well part that break any banking apps, i can’t deny that
        But there’s fix for that things, i just followed some guy instructions from XDA Forum & all my banking/paying apps work flawlessly
        Of course it’s not easy work at first tbh, but always remember it’s hard but you only do that hard working once

        I remembered 10 years ago have same thinking like you, but after internet has became shitty i must do that. At first yes… everything seems like hard things to do since it’s first time for me do something to my smartphone way beyond it’s recommend, but after that it’s just like walking in the park

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        Depends…
        Adguard has little secret that can strip any protocol request, basically it’s has monitor that can detect any weird behavior apps that has access to internet

        From my experience it’s work flawlessly, but you need a little bit of work to enabled it & of course you need the right filters
        In my device i used AdAway for host blocking (a.k.a non regex filtering) & Adguard for blocking ads that has weird behavior. Both of them works flawlessly & since then my device has no ads/tracking or whatsoever wherever i go

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      Will adaway remove the Copilot section? I think this a app feature/ native component. Ad blocking might not do much here.

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        AdAway alone can’t remove that thing unless you used HAGEZI filters & 1Host pro filter
        For apps i just used Adguard bc it can strip any protocol & block ads even if that app has encrypted ads