cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1305860/google-search-testing-sign-in-to-verify-searches-are-human
Google Search is testing asking searchers to sign in to verify they are humans and not bots conducting the searches.
Google will stop showing you search results, as you click through the pages, and say “Sign in to verify you’re a human and see more results.”
Source: Search Engine Roundtable
The shittier you make a product, the more inconvenient you force it to be, the faster I dump you. Thank you, crappy business, for helping me to simplify my life. We live in a world that has way too many choices for products & services. Successful products make things easy for lazy people to use, this is the epitome of failure, enshittification.