Their own investor guidance says they have increased page views by showing worse search results. You have to go through more pages and see more ads to get the correct link. Switch to Duck Duck go or if you want to pay, kagi.

my wife would tell you to try danskos

This is like when studios were told they couldn’t operate theaters. Streamers make their own content and it’s not available in other places To buy or rent. As long as I can either stream/buy/rent I don’t see it as a problem. But not the case with netflix/others.

It's really difficult in our competitive society to unlearn what's been reinforced as often as "if you really want X you have to try harder". Not just partners, but promotions, achievements, whatever. A lot of people value other people as one of those things, a trophy, another achievement to be had.

returned itchy af beanie minus $4 for shipping. Sigh.

“Your beanie has shipped”. Finds beanie 5 minutes later in a drawer I check 5 times.