All companies want open standards and regulation of the big players when they’re small. All companies want high barriers to entry and regulation of the small players when they’re big.
All companies want what is best for them. In that matter, they differ very little from people.
Corporations are people didn’t you know?
Not in the country I live, luckily.
Don’t worry. The US will fix that.
America, fk yeah, coming again to save the mother fkn day, yeah
Huh?
I used to give Google money for services (Drive and YouTube), but I’ve already stopped doing that because of their evil ways. This just hammers it home that much more.
Edit: The shitty part is what a cool company it used to be. And to watch it destroy itself like this is just sad.
This is my biggest complaint. They were the best way to access the sum of all human knowledge. Now I NEVER find things relevant to my search, just things that can be sold to me. Things like the “-“ character no longer work. I still get the excluded term in top results. It garbage now and everyone at google is to blame not just the executives.
I took my money from YouTube and started giving it to Kagi. 🙂👍
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Might get there. Right now I just have external SSH access (key only) to get to the files. I also need an offsite, so it’s all sent to a remote server with rsync and gocryptfs. I only have about 90 GB of stuff on there right now; I don’t do any media serving.
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For sure–I just don’t tend to watch anything more than once. :) Most of my federated identity and offsites are at SDF, which is a solid place with a mission I respect and certainly don’t mind giving $36/year to. Grayjay for stupid vids (if I could just get it to work with FCast…)
This is the year of enshittification, isn’t it? Damn every company has pushed the pedal to the metal on it
The cat’s out of the bag. Gotta grab everything before folks try to stop them.
It definitely feels like a transition period for the whole Internet. Tech platforms finally reached their maximum user potential and scale, so now it’s time to turn the screws.
They all think we need them, so now we figure out if they’re right.
They weren’t. Source: time traveler from the future
Honestly, this is about what I expect from Google nowadays. It’s surprising when they manage to live up to the “Don’t be Evil” motto they used to have.
There’s a reason they got rid of that motto.
They never got rid of it though. I don’t understand why people keep repeating this. See the final paragraph here: https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/
They might as well have though 🙃
don’t be evil and if you see something, speak up
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+whistleblower+fired
Oh really Google?
It’s double speak. The translation is “We are evil and if you say something about what you see, we will silence you.”.
Wait, that’s the government’s stance also.
Are you beginning to see things more clearly now?
Depends on your definition of “evil”, I guess.
Lol, right? Bit of a slippery slope over at the ol search and advertising factory.
They removed it from the main body as like, an organizing principle. and left it in only one sentence at the end. https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393
Sure, that’s different to totally removing it though.
I heard several news stories stating that they had, but I guess that’s my fault for believing the news. I just assumed they would get something right eventually.
Expect this and they killing some of their products.
It’s-not-corruption-if-it’s-law approach?
It’s a form of regulatory capture and is taught is all business schools.
At this point what they learn in business schools is the full bestiary of legal and illegal tricks and scams you can use to extract money from us cattle and contribute as little as possible to the upkeep :(
Regulatory capture seems about on par for Google these days. I suppose I’ll be switching back to OnePlus for Android devices; that’ll be about it for Google stuff in my home.
