I've been subconsciously doing this forever and after hundreds if no thousands of interaction have lately been assessing its outcome as more neutral than the article frames it. On the long run while mildly pleasant, you realise how shallow these conversations are and they have not brought anything valuable to your life. Maybe stopping for a while would lead to further realisation but I don't think so.
The most positive effect it has had on me is to make me enjoy even more deep conversations with my friends.
I’ve been using DDG for close to ten years and only use !g about once a year or less. What are your typical queries? I mostly search CS-related (though less nowadays with LLM) or simple stuff.
Why? Genuinely, who cares? Is some demographic group not caught in the 8 going to be offended by basic checkbox screen? Is someone with a niche form of colorblindness going to have difficulty navigating the UI?
How can you seriously pretend to do any study with only eight people involved? Especially when your company is worth billion. It just calls for bad press and criticism of amateurism.
I mean, yes? A very broad spectrum of people need to use the internet, and cloudflare has inserted themselves in the middle of it.
I don't necessarily find a problem with them, but its weird how they boasted about massive scale and importance of this, but then only just went with 8 tests.
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