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Mira los estados con etiquetas en la comunidad local de Lectura Social

Didn't believe this was a thing until I actually saw it myself.

I bank at a small, local credit union. I recently cleared my autocomplete settings so plugged their name into to get back to their homepage.

The Sponsored result IS NOT my bank's website. But is skinned the same. 100% a site served as a Google ad above the legitimate business website.

This is a major problem, my friends.

El otro día os dije que si buscáis un , especialmente si es antiguo, usarais en vez de .

Esta imagen lo ilustra perfectamente:
👎 Google: 4 enlaces patrocinados de compra más un enlace a Amazon (abajo hay otro y más a otras tiendas).
👍 DuckDuckGo: enlaces a archive.org, academia.edu, abajo hay otro a OpenLibrary e Internet Sacred Text Archive...porque es un libro de 1899 y el autor murió en 1919. ¡Ojo! Que en todos lees directamente sin colas ni tiempo límite.

is trying again to convince you, YES YOU, to contribute for free to Google Maps.
Please don't.
It is 100% , Google has full control over the data you added and people can only access Google Maps over proprietary channels where Google dictates the rules. This gives them too much power.

Contribute to instead, it's a project by the community, for the community.

https://www.openstreetmap.org

What happens if decides only users can access it? Well, that's what 's new API would do if its new DRM for the moves ahead.

@markhachman covers it on @pcworld ⬇️
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2009730/vivaldi-mozilla-warn-of-googles-proposed-drm-for-the-web.html

State of the Web, circa 2023:

“Would you like to use the browser by Company X, or the browser by the company that survives on half-a-billion dollars a year from Company X, or the browser by the company that gets paid an estimated $20 billion a year by Company X even though it can survive without it?”

We desperately need a web browser by an independent organisation funded by EU taxpayer money and maintained for the common good.