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How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

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How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate results that will get you to buy more stuff.

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I’ve just done the same search as in the article on Chrome, Firefox and DuckDuckGo

Google served 5 ads before showing me M&S’ website

DDG showed me an ad for Temu then M&S’ website

Firefox showed me no ad, thanks ublock, and straight to M&S’ website

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