It's better in the short term, for sure. If you look at the longer term, though, that's not true anymore. I wrote a few things on the topic here: https://news

It's better in the short term, for sure. If you look at the longer term, though, that's not true anymore. I wrote a few things on the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664053 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664053 That's without even counting that Google get to decide on what can be experimented upon and what can't. You probably don't want a single company to decide this.