• maxprime@lemmy.ml
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    Anyone who has had to troubleshoot anything Windows related knows just how useless anything from a Microsoft website is.

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    Lets trust the company with an illegal monopoly with verification checkmarks I am sure nothing will go wrong.

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    Thus forcing everone to wonder why, if they believe some results are fraudelent, they are showing them to us at all.

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      Hovering over a checkmark will display a message that explains “Google’s signals suggest that this business is the business that it says it is,” which is determined by things like

      I guess this due diligence cost time and money. And doing this due diligence for every ad customer might affect their bottom line.

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    How much will it affect ranking in the search algorithm? When will they announce the asking price? What about legitimate sites that cannot pony up that inevitable price?

    Call me conspiratorial but this seems like a way to further subjugate civil society to cooperate society. . “Oh well, they couldn’t make a profit to pay for the blue check, so they’re not legitimate”