They have been calling Google out on all sorts of shit for years, to be honest. However, I understand your point.

Many people in the SEO industry have really been calling Google out publicly for this pretty hard and consistently for many months now. Glad they finally listened.

You want to prevent echo chambers? You have to stop allowing people to block others. Forcing people to see and interact with shit they don’t like prevents echo chambers. Allowing blocking just enforces echo chambers.

For the record, I’m not for disabling blocking. Algorithms are a whole other piece of that echo chamber puzzle.

Bruh! Your golf business meetings, lunches, drinks, clubs, gamblin, parties, vacations, and anything other than sitting in front of a computer going meeting after meeting with 5 minute lunch and then coming home to make dinner or do chores and deal with shopping or family issues after sitting in traffic for at least an hour each way and no one driving you all while doing this without extra help is a mistake.

When you can do what we do for the pay we get for at least a whole year, let’s talk. Until then, kindly suck on deez nutz.

Because the people who can afford and are willing to pay are a certain demographic.

It’s all about personas and marketing testing!