I pay for my email provider and every year around the time when I need to pay the fee I get a lot of anxiety around that, not knowing how bad it's going to be for my finances and savings and stuff. And that's only 12€ *per year*.

This is 10 times more expensive, and not everyone works in tech and get paid relatively massive sums of money like apparently 75+% of fedi does.

It also has AI bullshit too so their marketing doesn't even hold

Link to an article covering this in @urlyman 's post.

https://social.linux.pizza/deck/@urlyman@mastodon.social/116608212030886177

From the article itself:
"Google is betting its entire future on a world where people eagerly hand over their emails, their files, their habits, and their trust – to an AI system that will quietly auction off their attention, word by word, to the highest bidder. The ad infrastructure is ready. The question is whether the audience is."

https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum

Easily shortened with no loss of information to "Google Search is over". It's really time for them to stop pretending Google is a search engine anymore.

I do wonder what running genAI on all their queries is already costing them and how that will only grow per user, though I can only guess how they are going to try and recover that cost.

Meanwhile I can see a lot of websites opting out of paying the Google advertisers tax and starting to set a google noindex tag.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/05/links/

Thank you for this thread and breakdown!

Antigravity is a fantastic name, though. A concept directly contrary to observable reality which can never provide what it purports to do, but which demands infinite money to research and build a la a Perpetual Motion machine? Perfect, and I look forward to them naming their future confidence tricks in a similar manner.

Google Phlogiston. Google Luminous Aether. Google Phrenology.

Yup

Google gave up on "don't be evil" at least a decade ago

while I worked there about five years ago, they gave up on "respect the user, respect the opportunity, respect each other"

now they seem to have given up on "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"

I hate that my livelihood is still tied to them.

I’ll try to remember to try prepending with “g! -ai “, but that’s not an acceptable way for them to interpret “opt out”

i have never observed google demonstrate any behavior that struck me as evidence of them gathering any form of information

except for them unethically gathering lots of information about you?

Even easier:

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

Enjoy!

#NoAI