Surprised pikachu face An ad company is gonna do what an ad company nets more profit.
I feel like at this point it should be obvious but because they have their fingers in so many pies a lot of people don't notice.
Google is an ad company and basically everything they do at this point serves that. They should have changed their name to doubleclick.
It's time for Alphabet to be broken up into separate letters.
I would settle for “broken”
Once claimed to stand for
TIL a new word "enshittification"
_enshittification entails these steps:
first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves._
Cory Doctorow is usually pretty interesting. Here is the essay where he talks about enshittification. Not some huge revelation, but truth nonetheless.
Google just wants to protect us guys. Pinky promise.
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. It's absolutely true, time and time again it keeps being proven true.
Was this article written by Holden Caulfield?
Google's a phony!
Ngl i didnt read the article but this headline is already dumb. Ever since Google got any sort of popularity, it has been an obvious danger to the internet, net neutrality and any free projects that want to exist without being involved with google. If you have to state as your company motto that you arent evil then maybe you are already evil...
In what should be surprising to Noone, Google was just paying lip service about what it stood for from the beginning. When their motto was 'do no evil' it was a lie, they just stopped pretending.
Hard disagree. Back in its early days, Google was genuinely decent. They competed by building better stuff than everyone else, and that's it.
There was no decent free email and no free maps before Google. You used to have to pay hundreds for decent mapping software.
The good old Web 2.0 days, when companies were falling over themselves to provide free APIs and see what people could do with them.
Google started going to shit when they brought out Android and everybody started trying to build walled gardens, and went full evil when that moral vacuum Pichai took over.
Google was collecting your data without informing you from the very beginning. Just because they wrote good software and offered free stuff doesn't mean they weren't doing shady stuff in the background.
I still use Google services, but only because the free part of the trade is currently working in my favor since I block all their ads.
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