Duh, that was always the plan. It was never for the good of humanity, just good for the oligarchs wallets
this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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From the moment I herd that Google was going to transition to LLMs my first thought was that it was their way of finally defeating adblockers.
gasp
In other news, water is wet.
just like most popular search engines, didn't expect other than following same path
The future is about embedded ads in LLM responses, and people relying more and more on LLMs, so what we need to do is what we've always done - circumvent / block ads. But how would that work in this scenario, realistically?
By not using AI in any of it's forms willingly, for one. Another would be- if AI suggests a product or a brand, no matter what prompt, it's safe to bet that it's an ad.
I'm willing to bet that AI is going to be more and more difficult to avoid for the average people, as the (corporate) push for it is so strong. As it has been for Google, Meta etc. Average person doesn't have the energy or motivation to care enough to dismiss AI completely.
But for us more tech-savvy people, maybe local LLMs are the solution?
Ya don't say
My wife got a new corporate laptop, so I was interested in docking stations for it. Since I was on the couch and not on my desktop I asked ChatGPT what its recommendations were and all the results were stupid expensive crap. I had to point out that it was overpriced garbage, and then it showed me affordable ones on Amazon.
If I specify what I'm looking for it will generally provide me with what I want. But if I'm not specific it will happily show me the most expensive and worst options first.
Stop asking it anything at all in the first place.
"If we have to destroy the world to sell branded shit then let it be so!" - The Advertising Council of America (another billionaire shell/shill company).
Ain't no way!
ticket closed - by design
Wait , who owns (sells ads for) Qwen?
Could it be because browsers force sponsored content to the top of search results? No, no, it's the data analysis who are wrong.
As much as I want to jump to conclusions, I can't help but think that this might be a correlation versus causation situation. It's possible that search engine results and their rankings were given different weights in a model. Ads would more often show up first in a search result.