Comment by BrenBarn
3 hours ago
> I think that Google gives the average person exactly the results they want.
There is some truth in this, but to me it's similar to saying that a drug dealer gives their customers exactly what they want. People "want" those things because Google and its ilk have conditioned them to want those things.
On the one hand, a search engine is not heroin... It's a pretty broken analogy.
On the other hand, we could probably convince Cory Doctorow to write a piece about how fentanyl is really about the enshitification of opiates.