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Pull a Google? I mean many of their actions, on the surface, could be euphemistically called "helping humanity" when in reality they're only helping Google. P
by tannhaeuser 7y ago
Pull a Google?
I mean many of their actions, on the surface, could be euphemistically called "helping humanity" when in reality they're only helping Google.
Penalizing non-https sites: "we're making the web more secure" - and lock out advertisement surface to the benefit of our ads quasi-monopoly (admittedly, a weak case though)
Android Stagefreight bug: "we're disabling MMS to protect Android users" - and by the way close a channel for easy publishing with carrier billing that is part of the highly regulated 3G/4G stack
HTML5: "we're advancing the web and make it fully portable" - and also capture HTML standardization and make it so overcomplicated and never-ending that even MS (and long-time pioneer Opera) are forced-out of producing web browsers alltogether