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Google is doing everything it can to tighten its stranglehold on the entire WWW, if another behemoth like Microsoft wants to put up a fight, I say have at it!
by sequoia 7y ago
Google is doing everything it can to tighten its stranglehold on the entire WWW, if another behemoth like Microsoft wants to put up a fight, I say have at it!
I certainly am not shedding any tears for Google, who relentlessly funnels people into their tools, automatically logs them in in chrome, pushes their products into schools to get young people into their data-vacuum as soon as possible. Not to mention shady practices like AMP trying to force developers to use their own version of HTML & serve their content on google.com, "or else say goodbye to your search ranking."
MSFT is definitely "picking on someone their own size" and certainly not doing anything more underhanded than what google routinely engages in, so I don't see the issue.
- zamadatix 7y agoOne doing it is bad so 2 doing it is great? Competition is usually good but I don't think this kind of competition is actually helping get rid any of those problems just changing who's name might be on the particular problem today. No amount of giant tech companies shuffling is going to result in the return of an even playground for all in those areas.
- jlarocco 7y agoAt this point it's hard for me to feel sorry for anybody still using either Google or Microsoft. They've both been bad actors for years now, and the excuses people come up with to keep using them anyway have worn very thin.
- eh78ssxv2f 7y agoI agree that nobody needs to shed tears for Google. However, what's more concerning here is that it's the users who would face the brunt of this decision.