I wrote about Apple's privacy promise yesterday — then Google held I/O and made the whole thing worse. They didn't build a better search, they built a cage out of the old one funneling you right into their AI and likely away from the actual sources of what you searched for.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/every-road-leads-to-google
#google #apple #ai #privacy #gemini #search #googleio #bigtech #userhostile #agentic #blog
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