• Kissaki@feddit.org
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    19 hours ago

    Chrome has added Auto Browse

    sit down, lean back, and watch the internet scroll by /s

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    1 day ago

    “Let’s give everyone an army of spambots! What could go wrong?”

    I’m gonna start reading books again.

    • innermachine@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      I don’t know if he joking or not but seriously I started reading again regularly like a year ish ago and I think my attention span getting better. Just not spending as much time scrolling bullshit is a big W along with practicing a longer attention span weather it’s reading or something else. Go get a terry pratchet book !

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    2 days ago

    They want to push all this shit in browsers so that they can start automatically buying shit once they’re selling ads

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      God, I hadn’t thought of that. It’s going to be like cancelling a cable subscription but worse.

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    2 days ago

    It will handle your socials, chats, your agenda, your website, your credit card, your vacations, your photos from the moment of activation to well after death…

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      2 days ago

      All so you can spend more time generating value for your masters and overlords. Huzzah, we’ve eliminated the pesky scourge of free time!

    • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      If they marketed “Agentic AI” as a way for someone to disappear from the internet entirely and be replaced by AI, I’d finally get onboard.

      • Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml
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        2 days ago

        Basically don’t know how to interpret “autobrowse” in any other way. Bit like “autopilot”, you “should” have the hands on the steering wheel but…