google was originally successful because they didn’t fill their homescreen with crap, maybe they forgot
They didn’t forget, they are now exploiting their monopoly after they killed competition.
It’s not a safe monopoly at all, though. Most of my “question”-style queries now go directly to an LLM-based alternative, on account of how much Google search results have dropped in quality for that type of query. I only really use Google directly for stuff like finding something that I specifically know what I’m looking for, but don’t know the exact link to.
What search api do you think those services use under the hood? Funnily enough though, only Bing actually lets you use their API directly, services that build on top of Google are paying proxy scrapers because Google doesn’t sell direct access to their search results. I’m guessing they’ll open it up to capture that market eventually.
“Enshitification”
Devices running Android TV can have all kinds of different apps sideloaded onto them, including alternative launchers. I suggest using one.
Projectivy Launcher.
Just installed this on my shield. Ty for this.
Fucking amazing launcher
Only thing I miss from the default launcher is holding the back button to bring up settings so I can hit sleep but it’s been great otherwise.
the enshittification continues
I am shocked a service named after the advertising company that owns it would do this
Shocked, I say!!
watches the majority of the market use Chrome as their default browser
Firefox <3
next they’ll release Google TV Premium without ads then Google TV Lite with less features, eventually we’ll just circle back to normal TVs again
anboid tee viii
My libreelec tv box bit the dust today (not permanently I hope). After twitch freezing the whole machine on midroll ads that now appear eevrywhere, now youtube doesnt play anymore either because it thinks I‘m on a android client… now I need to update and hope that this is not a permanent problem.
