A huge number of people that use Google Docs and other products daily are trying really hard to avoid using it in spite of it being rammed down their throats to the point that leaving Google starts to look like a viable option. Oh, and of course you do pay for it even if you don't use it and never plan to use it.
I chanted it when I realized that bad search results were not a lost fight against SEO, but intention. That made me try other search engines ... and both bing and duckduckgo are better.
I don't use those on my computer, so I guess I haven't run into it there. My setup is mostly for Google search and YouTube on both mobile safari and macOS Safari. For YouTube, I have hidden the shorts, community posts and any videos with less than 1000 views (almost always AI generated slop).
Good stuff. If you are sharing it anywhere a pointer would be appreciated. I've already done as much as I can without spending a week hacking up scripts and I'm game for anything that will improve this further.
I just want to be able to decide where when and how I use particular tools. I don't think 'left leaning' has anything to do with it, and I find this a weird connection to make.
If it serves as proof that that is not relevant I am purely thinking about this in a professional context, not in a private one.
Sometimes a little personal experience-based clearly anecdotal talk is okay. Hacker News isn’t some scientific journal, and yes, I too know one leftie in my circle that hates AI models and zero right wingers who feel that way… Do you have any anecdotal evidence to the contrary?
