The grand old enshittification curve strikes again. Remember, as stated by Cory Doctorow, the process of enshittification entails these steps: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse t…
    • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • snooggums@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

      • snooggums@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Making quality stuff for free does not mean they were not doing shady things in the background.

        I have no plan to boycott Google or anything, but they were nwver benevolent and usage has always been a tradeoff of data tracking for convenience.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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…

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I agree not everything is black and white with this stuff, but good deeds do not absolve you from your bad ones. As we are currently seeing, Chromium being open source doesnt prevent Chrome from being changed in ways that is not in the interest of the users.

        Also while they do release many things as open source, the software that people end up using in the end (Chrome, Maps, etc) are not open source at all, which just further solidifies their market dominance because people cant accept even giving up one little feature in favor of a different app, service, website.

        Also comparing two big tech companies for their supposed upsides and downsides is pointless. They both suck and we should reduce our dependence on all of them.