Comment by winternett
6 years ago
Don't be evil...
Until we are deployed enough that users don't have a choice...
Now that Google has cornered the market for Internet browsing, they're using that foothold to change how it works to suit their dominance. This is why they are not concerned about per-site tracking that Google Analytics does, as long as THEY as a company have direct browser-based tracking, they no longer need to provide tracking services to other private companies to know what is trending everywhere. This is also probably why they're trying to kill ad blockers and certain browser privacy extensions.... But they won't really matter to Google if everything is done at the browser level to begin with from now on. :/
If they make moves to scale back [free] Google Analytics, which they probably will at some point, it will only highlight this ideal... They may turn to selling their privately collected metrics and qualitative studies to companies after Google Analytics is rendered useless, and then that's unadulterated monopolistic profit for them and shareholders...
Diabolical.
True. But luckily you actually have a choice. Many opt for DuckDuckGo on Firefox, for instance.
You are right, but they also know most people won't switch. They have an entire generation of folks that don't even think about privacy.
There's also the subset of all of us who must use Chrome because <solution X> needed for work requires said browser. Google's dominance through Chrome extends to the whole ecosystem. Same thing with Apple inside their own (which is nowhere near a monopoly at 10-15% market share worldwide, thus totally fair game by comparison).
On the other hand, people hate ads, so going to Firefox might actually be better option for new users.
You can probably be identified on Firefox too: https://amiunique.org
They might and I used to be one of them, but now I use Google on Firefox isntead, because DuckDuckGo no longer yields useful results. The number of times I don't go "oh ffs, fine, !g" has been in steady decline over the last year, and at this point I've given up.
Why do people still dredge up Google's historical "don't be evil"? It's not been applicable for half a decade now, and even in 2015 when it was officially removed from the last company documents, it was already a dead phrase.
Google had already cornered the market back in 2012, when it surpassed every other browser, with an absolute majority dominance (>50% market share) achieved way back in 2015.
Google has been in control for a long time now.
Because of the deep irony? If you have a moto that binary and later decide to remove it, what is the world to infer?
> Why do people still dredge up Google's historical "don't be evil"?
Historical? It's not like it was 50 years ago.
In a world where broadband internet hasn't even been available for 2 decades, 5 years is a bloody long time.
Please don't post blatantly false statements that are trivial to refute.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil