Comment by cookiengineer
18 hours ago
Is it though?
Google's business model has been ads from the beginning. Search, gmail, drive, office, chrome, everything they do is just to drive ad revenue further.
They don't care about the user. Never have, and never will.
And the outcome we are seeing is what happens when a defunct state isn't able to protect citizens from conglomerates. That's what the Kartellamt or the FTC is supposed to be for.
Nope. At least until 2008 I cared and Larry and Sergey cared quite a bit.
Yes, I believe they initially really meant it when making their “don’t be evil” statement.
The company as a whole also really stopped caring at some point and are now following the “do be evil” paradigm
So "never have" might not be true. But what about the rest of the comment?
> Nope. At least until 2008 I cared and Larry and Sergey cared quite a bit.
Not sure if I can't see this comment as anything else than hypocritical. It's always easier on the money receiving side, isn't it? How do you think the term malvertisement came to be?
AdMob is kind of the definition of inevitable Surveillance Capitalism and the prime example for necessary regulation through government.