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MSFT was caught buying services of some PR company to make negative waves about Google. The "general hackers" discontent is pretty recent. We can't really tell
by bitL 8y ago
MSFT was caught buying services of some PR company to make negative waves about Google. The "general hackers" discontent is pretty recent. We can't really tell who is paid to talk bad about Google and who does really mean it due to ethical concerns, so she has a point.
- t0astbread 8y agoBut what if YOU were paid by Google to make that comment?
- bitL 8y agoI am just trying to be objective; the next statement would tell you I was not paid - except for GMail and a bit of Chrome for dev work I am now completely Google-less, moved over to DDG, ProtonMail and my phones are running iOS and Sailfish OS. Exceptions are TensorFlow, Keras and Kubernetes.
- blub 8y ago"they give the EU additional excuses to try fine Google billions extra to enrich EU coffers"plus the part where they say that Google is great at privacy makes me think the author is very much out of touch with reality. I've seen it with Google employees here on HN too: they're so invested in everything Google that they can't understand why anyone would have an issue with their endless data collection and surveillance of the entire planet. Any lingering doubts are probably buried when they think that all thing considered they do have a very cushy life at the company.
- pas 8y agoWere there less/smaller blunders of Google, those hired guns would shoot air at nothing. That is, it's Google's fuckups that counts, not how many people scream about it on HN. (In general it matters, but that's politics.)