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One of the few times a headline ends with a question mark the obvious answer is in fact: "yes" Google is evil. Facebook is worse.
by paulie_a 9y ago
One of the few times a headline ends with a question mark the obvious answer is in fact: "yes"
Google is evil. Facebook is worse.
- libdjml 9y agoI know I have an unexplainable bias toward seeing google as inherently positive to society, so I’m keen to hear what makes you think google is evil?
- paulie_a 9y agoI don't agree that collecting private data is "inherently positive to society" considering the result is low quality advertising
- CaptSpify 9y agoThey intentionally design their products in such a way that puts their user's privacy and security in danger, by not putting the user in control of their own data. By using Advertising as the basis for their business, they have encouraged a huge race to the bottom for other online services. They also tie themselves unnecessarily into other parts of the web, and degrade the experience in efforts to consolidate power for themselves.
- Sylos 9y agoI disagree. Facebook is just less clever about being evil. Google instead looms in every corner that remains too complicated for most people to understand and quietly harvests data. And the article really does a piss-poor job at trying to pursue its question. Heck, most of it is directly quoting the opinion of a Google engineer.