9 Feb
2023
9 Feb
'23
5:21 p.m.
>>> If in doubt, GOOGLE THE WEBSITE, and see
if valid websites link to it,
>>> if
>> [...]
>>> Stay safe out there :)
>> In my opinion, one of the first things to do
to try to stay safe out
>> there, if not the first, is to stop using that website and use one that
>> doesn't track what you search, that doesn't show you different results
>> to what it shows to other people who do the same search, and that
>> doesn't treat you as its product.
> 100% agreed.
> That being said, all search engines are more or less broken today, due to a
> number of factors. It's like we're back in 1996. Except worse.
> Sellam
On Thu, 9 Feb 2023, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
That’s an interesting observation Sellam, and I have
to agree. In thinking about it, I was able to find stuff on the Internet easier in 1995
than I seem to be able to now. I mostly avoid Google like the plague now, but I decided
to use it today to look for a very specific term, it still spews nonsense.
GOOGLE: covertly using ChatGPT ever since they decided "Do no evil" was a
joke. ?
If you didn't know the names of any of the principals, or that Datasync
(name now used by other companies) and World Power Systems (name now used
by other companies) were related, how would you find anything about that
scam?