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I would settle for “broken”
I think the X is already taken
X isn’t in alphabet, silly.
I can’t wait for the “D Corporation” to be born out of it
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.
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When you need to please shareholders, this is what happens.
I think the Don’t Be Evil motto was true up until they decided to go public. That was the start of the end, basically.
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.
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.
Google just wants to protect us guys. Pinky promise.
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.
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Before Gmail, my old Hotmail account had a whopping 2MB of storage, and others were similarly small. Gmail was a few GB right from the start, forcing the rest to compete and offer more storage.
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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.
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.
Was this article written by Holden Caulfield?
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around–nobody big, I mean–except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff–I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy.”
Google’s a phony!
Google became the thing they disrupted. Now all their services are shit.
all their services are shit
Many of their services are quite good. Their management and business operations have been turned to utter shit (for consumers). They’ve been told they need to make more money every quarter and they’ve run out of easy things to make money on, so they’re now looking at their entire catalog with the sole focus of revenue generation and profit growth rather than merely being an impactful internet resource which is sustainably profitable.
I have the opinion here that stocks should be harder to trade. If you bought stocks and had to hold them for a 5 year period, and instead got paid a dividend, then the push for quarterly results would not force companies to be quite as rapidly self-sabotaging. Corporate bonds instead of trying to beat the bell. IPOs and that market are the root cause to a lot of shit.
