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Some of us tried to sound the alarm on fake traffic before Google IPO'd and WSJ or some other major news source wrote about it at the time days before their IPO

by hi3980 9y ago

Some of us tried to sound the alarm on fake traffic before Google IPO'd and WSJ or some other major news source wrote about it at the time days before their IPO, but no one cared at all. Everyone wanted Google to become the greatest in history based on a business model that acknowledges fraud but regards it as mere noise as opposed to mortal threat. Well, the whole point of warning the public before their IPO was to prevent the giant economic disaster that this can lead to. But Google was clever and managed to find a profitable business with Android and maybe other streams of revenue. I wonder how this will play out.

fakeads 9y ago
You got the business part wrong. Google is like 88% ads. The rest is barely profitable or run at a loss.
- hi3980 9y ago
  I wonder if this is in response to firing of that dude that said women are biologically disadvantaged at coding LOL. It probably is. What a pity that it took sympathizers/supporters of a sexist asshole to standup to Google.
  - nindalf 9y ago
    > I wonder No it seems completely unrelated. To be honest I don't know how you linked these two events in your mind.
    - hi3980 9y ago
      Easy. March on Google was planned in support of that guy. So why not an electronic protest to follow? What is the hard part about making the connection. Wait, a trick question, right? You're baffled...
    - jnbiche 9y ago
      The subreddits mentioned above are alt right subs like /r/The_Donald . They are openly protesting the firing of the memo author by using extensions like AdNauseum that interfere with Google's revenue stream.
      - micheljones 9y ago
        It's not just the memo author, google has started a campaign of indirect censorship by punishing what they call 'controversial content' in doublespeak but mostly boils down to 'right-wing leaning' on YouTube by a) demonetizing channels/users b) disabling commenting and embedding videos for those users too. Google thinks it's acceptable to wage an economic war against people who don't think the way Google approves, and the users are simply accepting the new rules of the game.
  - micheljones 9y ago
    No, it's a response to recent policy changes at google that suppress right-wing thinking/publishing, as part of the larger-scale online suppression of it marketed as 'fighting the fake news': http://www.amerika.org/wp-content/uploads/right-wing-censorship-768x909.jpg http://www.amerika.org/wp-content/uploads/right-wing-censors... That's a generic list that doesn't mention google, but this is specifically about google: https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/901545224530530305 https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/901545224530530305 In most recent escalation of this, Youtube has 'economically censored' Ron Paul for criticizing U.S. foreign policy on Afghanistan and WikiLeaks.

by hi3980 9y ago

fakeads 9y ago

You got the business part wrong. Google is like 88% ads. The rest is barely profitable or run at a loss.

hi3980 9y ago
I wonder if this is in response to firing of that dude that said women are biologically disadvantaged at coding LOL. It probably is. What a pity that it took sympathizers/supporters of a sexist asshole to standup to Google.
- nindalf 9y ago
  > I wonder No it seems completely unrelated. To be honest I don't know how you linked these two events in your mind.
  - hi3980 9y ago
    Easy. March on Google was planned in support of that guy. So why not an electronic protest to follow? What is the hard part about making the connection. Wait, a trick question, right? You're baffled...
  - jnbiche 9y ago
    The subreddits mentioned above are alt right subs like /r/The_Donald . They are openly protesting the firing of the memo author by using extensions like AdNauseum that interfere with Google's revenue stream.
    - micheljones 9y ago
      It's not just the memo author, google has started a campaign of indirect censorship by punishing what they call 'controversial content' in doublespeak but mostly boils down to 'right-wing leaning' on YouTube by a) demonetizing channels/users b) disabling commenting and embedding videos for those users too. Google thinks it's acceptable to wage an economic war against people who don't think the way Google approves, and the users are simply accepting the new rules of the game.
- micheljones 9y ago
  No, it's a response to recent policy changes at google that suppress right-wing thinking/publishing, as part of the larger-scale online suppression of it marketed as 'fighting the fake news': http://www.amerika.org/wp-content/uploads/right-wing-censorship-768x909.jpg http://www.amerika.org/wp-content/uploads/right-wing-censors... That's a generic list that doesn't mention google, but this is specifically about google: https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/901545224530530305 https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/901545224530530305 In most recent escalation of this, Youtube has 'economically censored' Ron Paul for criticizing U.S. foreign policy on Afghanistan and WikiLeaks.