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20th century Google: "Don't be evil."
Wow. They sure let that motto slide, didn't they?
I mean, it's now the same as every massive corporation: "Quarterly profits."
No single person will ever be as greedy as a Board filled with the fuckers. It will never be enough...
Don't don't be evil
They changed it to "do the right thing" around 2015 but never defined what "the right thing" might be - mostly shareholder value, I guess.
It's definitely not Do Tha Right Thang
Do Tha Fiduciary Thang just doesn't quite have the right sound
Money always comes first, for most of these companies. The era where your data was private is truly over. Now most of these platforms only give you a choice between your data being sold, and your data being sold for like a 2% cut
Matthew Bye, Google’s head of competition law, will be leaving as well
Bye Matthew
In the past I have been surprised to encounter some genuinely privacy-minded folks working at Google.
It's hard not to see this as an announcement that era is ending now...
I de-Googled awhile ago, based on my personal belief that Google wouldn't keep those people. I'm not happy to feel like this verifies my worst expectations.
Matthew Bye is also leaving
Nominative determinism tells me he must leave a lot of jobs.
Nominative determinism is pretty accurate. Steve Jobs did generate a lot of jobs. Bill Gates had a lot of gates to his name.
just in case it wasn't obvious
Privacy Schmivacy
Time to bring back AltaVista.
I'm trying my best to un-Google. i switched to firefox and ddg but the mapping... ugh. i cant quit the driving maps.
Magic earth is ok for nav but the problem with all openstreetmaps options remains the terrible search. This has been my experience for the past decade.
Recently the folks at jmp.chat released an alpha search which passes navigation intents in Android to the nav app of your choice, so I think we are getting close to a real alternative in the next few years.
Since when has google been about privacy in any form?
When they were a search engine 20+ years ago
Oh yeah i forgot heh
I hope this is not fallout from the 404 Media article