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I work in ads at Google, and I don't consider the company evil. It does an enormous number of things which range from very positive to very negative, but on bal

by jefftk 7y ago

I work in ads at Google, and I don't consider the company evil. It does an enormous number of things which range from very positive to very negative, but on balance I think the company is and has been positive. I think some of the backlash is justified and pushes the company to do better, but there's also some amount of what feels like backlash for backlash's sake where it just gets everyone here paying less attention to what critics think. (speaking only for myself)

fdeage 7y ago
Thanks for replying. 2 questions: - what's the most negative in Google's actions in your opinion? - do you have examples of routine critiques of Google that you feel are unjustified?
- jefftk 7y ago
  > what's the most negative in Google's actions in your opinion? One that I was pretty angry about a few months ago was soliciting the business of ICE/CBP, and firing workers who tried to raise awareness of this internally: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/technology/google-fires-workers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/technology/google-fires-w... > do you have examples of routine critiques of Google that you feel are unjustified? One relatively recently one I remember was when Chrome announced that they were deprecating Chrome Apps in favor of Progressive Web Apps there was a lot of "Google is killing something again" backlash. But Chrome Apps were a Chrome-only solution Google came up with to make Chromebooks usable, and PWAs are the cross-browser replacement. Proprietary things that only work in Chrome should be replaced by standardized things, and this is actually a really good change.