It’s a well-known fact that Google spies on users, which isn’t anything new. However, the fact that they are now using this as a reference in a marketing meme is insulting.

Google is now making jokes at customers expense, using memes for promotional ads on Reddit, and saying that they don’t care about you because they know people will still buy their ad-platform spyware products.

Well, I say 🖕Google! Your corporate capitalism greed gets another 🖕! Oh, and before I forget, 🖕too reddit.

Edit: removed mention of a certain country

    • 404@lemmy.zip
      325·
      1 year ago

      Question still stands: who tf greenlit this? No chance they don’t know the other connotations

    • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      I thought it sounded really out of place still, but I guess it’s a reference to Cyberpunk’s expansion being stealth/spy based.

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I am familiar with that and don’t believe your take is accurate. When asking this question, it’s followed with a description of the thing you spy.

      “I spy… do you?” is the text of the ad and the text following that doesn’t make it make any more sense either, “Game more than you thought you could.”

    • Denatured@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I assume you’re not in the US and not familiar with that?

      No, other side of the world. No, not familiar with that.

      • Dark ArcAEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s a very common game here, especially for children (and has been for decades)… Here’s an example https://youtu.be/8N2Ha1FuBr4?si=XN9QeSYPrg1JzBuR

        It’s very similar to where is Waldo if you’ve heard of that, except “Waldo” can be anything the person who’s running the game wants it to be.

  • Sentrovasi@kbin.social
    14·
    1 year ago

    I (charitably) think the fact is that they may also have misunderstood Cyberpunk to be more about hacking than it actually is, and are using “spy” despite a lot of CP2077 not being necessarily about remote hacking cameras at all.

  • indigojasper@kbin.social
    122·
    1 year ago

    my bet is one of their bots made this and they don’t even know this ad is out in the wild until someone brings it up

  • privacybro@lemmy.ninjaEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    the elites and corps have always done this sort of thing. if you rule over billions of retards wouldn’t you also make fun?

  • rob299@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Ever heard of the game i spy? and with that they are advertising gaming for a Chromebook. This may all just be a coincidence.

    While these tech comapnies have people look at the how users might see phrases like “hey guys.” Not sure how Google thought people wouldn’t do the same to them with this. Chromebook’s don’t sell as well so this is the worst product to do the worst with for marketing, but at the same time maybe they really do think this and think they can get away with this meme because no one is really buying a Chromebook unless it’s like for school work. (although I actually do use my personal Chromebook on the daily i’m in that small minority.)

  • Wodge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Cyberpunk 2077’s expansion, Phantom Liberty, is a spy story. It’s nothing to do with Google.

  • Seudo@lemmy.world
    419·
    1 year ago

    Okay… And if you stand by your morals, more power to you. For me, it’s a worthwhile trade forfeiting my data (usually anonymised anyways) for the convenience of their free services.

    I’m not ignorant. Any one who isn’t aware of where G’s revenue comes from has been living under a rock. The choice is clear, and if Google is making that even more obvious, I think that’s a good thing.

    Keep fighting the good fight, but the majority of us will keep using google because these *exclusive scoops shouldn’t be a revelation to anyone.