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If Google promised to not inject more ads into My Day, I'd give them a break. But they did the opposite, committing to "continuing to experiment with new ways t
by millstone 8y ago
If Google promised to not inject more ads into My Day, I'd give them a break. But they did the opposite, committing to "continuing to experiment with new ways to surface unique content for users."
Regarding unexpectedly recording users: even if only one user was affected, the issue is that Google didn't show contrition. They characterized the problem as "touch controls behaving incorrectly" and did not acknowledge the privacy violation, except indirectly.
There's no conspiracy required here, the logic is very simple. Google is not losing money on these devices for fun.
- jrs95 8y agoGoogle Now probably does the same thing, but it's still incredibly useful.
- ehsankia 8y agoHow is literally driving to the house of the person affected 30m after receiving the email and replacing the broken device "not showing remorse"? I honestly don't understand HN sometimes, do you want them to literally lie about what happened? It was a hardware bug, and they literally had to cripple the device and disable touch control for every single device out there, to avoid this happening again, even though realistically it was only 0.001% of the devices that were affected. But again, they didn't take a chance and completely disabled that feature. Yet apparently that's "not shownig any remorse"... As for ads, again, who cares what they said, actions is what matters. There hasn't been any other content like that since then.