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by andirk 1231 days ago
I have noticed as the economy does worse, the amount of advertising on Google and Amazon search results goes up and up as well as more difficult to distinguish between paid and organic results. They have a lever they can throttle at their will, and when they need more money, they increase the ads. It takes people a while, maybe 6 months+, to realize their go-to search engine or online store has trashed their UX in favor of increasing the price of stonks.