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LOL putting a lot of faith in the average user to be able to Google something

by ssebs 2y ago

RodgerTheGreat 2y ago
Also putting a lot of faith in 2024 Google being able to find a result without tripping over a million pages of llm-generated nonsense and ads.
- Rinzler89 2y ago
  Or malware. "Here user, just type this in the comand line and run as administrator"
- trimethylpurine 2y ago
  The very first results from DuckDuckGo and Google show how to turn this off. For end users, it's literally in the built in settings. Group Policy is just nice for enterprise. I think you are all making a huge deal over nothing. This is why it takes so long to hire a decent group of people. It takes hundreds of hours to weed out people that would rather complain than find a solution, which is most of you, as you can see in this example.
  - viraptor 2y ago
    Yes, it's trivial to change. And no, a random average user will not cross the "this is a Googlable problem with a solution" realisation stage. This is not a problem for anyone reading this, but every normie I know uses stock settings on windows and no ad blocker. I occasionally get to respond to messages like "I got an error saying 'do X', how do fix this?". Thus is the level of a random user - people creating software have to acknowledge that at some point.
    - trimethylpurine 2y ago
      >This is not a problem for anyone reading this Then why is it posted here? This is a marketing post, in a place where it doesn't belong, complaining about marketing being where it doesn't belong. Apparently that's lost on at least a few regulars. Or more likely, they are upset that we don't want to see their garbage here too
      - viraptor 2y ago
        > Then why is it posted here? I appreciate it being posted, because I don't run stock windows, yet I deal with supporting many windows users. It's not something they'll raise with me if it's not completely breaking their workflow, so it's nice to know what is the latest badness I should be disabling.
        trimethylpurine 2y ago
        Okay. Fair enough. But wouldn't a post be better simply explaining that a basic setting or group policy exists rather than complaining on an ad packed page for more paragraphs than you care to read?

LOL putting a lot of faith in the average user to be able to Google something

by ssebs 2y ago

LOL putting a lot of faith in the average user to be able to Google something

Also putting a lot of faith in 2024 Google being able to find a result without tripping over a million pages of llm-generated nonsense and ads.

Rinzler89 2y ago
Or malware. "Here user, just type this in the comand line and run as administrator"
trimethylpurine 2y ago
The very first results from DuckDuckGo and Google show how to turn this off. For end users, it's literally in the built in settings. Group Policy is just nice for enterprise. I think you are all making a huge deal over nothing. This is why it takes so long to hire a decent group of people. It takes hundreds of hours to weed out people that would rather complain than find a solution, which is most of you, as you can see in this example.
- viraptor 2y ago
  Yes, it's trivial to change. And no, a random average user will not cross the "this is a Googlable problem with a solution" realisation stage. This is not a problem for anyone reading this, but every normie I know uses stock settings on windows and no ad blocker. I occasionally get to respond to messages like "I got an error saying 'do X', how do fix this?". Thus is the level of a random user - people creating software have to acknowledge that at some point.
  - trimethylpurine 2y ago
    >This is not a problem for anyone reading this Then why is it posted here? This is a marketing post, in a place where it doesn't belong, complaining about marketing being where it doesn't belong. Apparently that's lost on at least a few regulars. Or more likely, they are upset that we don't want to see their garbage here too
    - viraptor 2y ago
      > Then why is it posted here? I appreciate it being posted, because I don't run stock windows, yet I deal with supporting many windows users. It's not something they'll raise with me if it's not completely breaking their workflow, so it's nice to know what is the latest badness I should be disabling.
      - trimethylpurine 2y ago
        Okay. Fair enough. But wouldn't a post be better simply explaining that a basic setting or group policy exists rather than complaining on an ad packed page for more paragraphs than you care to read?