Shares in Google’s parent company Alphabet dived by almost ten percent on Wednesday, after the web giant admitted AI-powered searches earn it less money than it earns by serving ads with its old-school search engine.

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[–] 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

hello, this comment is from GrapheneOS. howareya

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Irritated by Google. I heard getting banking apps working is kind of a pain in the ass though, how's the experience been for you so far?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    my banking app works, because it doesn't require hardware authentication. This will be the case for all "correctly" developed apps, because usually, the "NFC payment" is provided by a second, optional app. That one doesn't work.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Google wallet not working means no tap to pay, which I consider a big loss. And none of my credit card apps (chase and capitalone) work outside of Google android, so that sucks.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    That sounds like a win. Those apps exist to harvest your information.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Sure. I could also just not have a phone, or ever leave the house. But being able to pay for things with ones phone is convenient, and I miss the convenience daily. I wish there were privacy respecting alternatives, but there are not.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    All of my banking apps work perfectly. The only apps that don't seem to work are Google Wallet (good riddance), FedEx, UPS, and Coinbase (I bought a very small amount of ETH many years ago and haven't wanted to deal with the tax situation by selling it. I should just do so and then be quits of the horrible piece of shit company).

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