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I doubt this strategy will work well for them, its highlighting the problem even more. Also interesting that Google would want to be anywhere close to being as
by kerng 6y ago
I doubt this strategy will work well for them, its highlighting the problem even more.
Also interesting that Google would want to be anywhere close to being associated with Facebook.
- dhnajsjdnd 6y agoWhat do you feel is so different about these two companies? They both do the same stuff.
- tworuweoiru243 6y agoGoogle's public image is slightly better than that of Facebook and Twitter.
- jobigoud 6y agoThere is a difference though, Twitter is usually critiqued for its user's behavior, not really for its own decisions. You can have a decent Twitter (or even Instagram) experience if you don't follow toxic people. Twitter is mostly a mirror of our behavior, the company itself isn't really actively evil. On the other hand you can't really escape Google as they are actively trying to insert themselves into everything. And Facebook is a bit of both, toxic communities and trying to be everywhere.
- reducesuffering 6y agoTwitter's own decisions regarding labeling disinformation are widely panned by right-wing circles and government. Twitter CEO Dorsey has been in congressional hearings multiple times over this.
- kennywinker 6y agoJust one person, but ranked from worst to best it's definitely Facebook is better than Google is better than Twitter Twitter has a big impact socially, but they're so much smaller than fb and google, it's hard to put them in the same league
- olliej 6y agoFacebook is absolutely worse than google, in addition to doing all of the horrific things google does, they’ve sold “privacy” VPNs that recorded information, repeatedly lied and reneged on promises.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoGoogle got caught operating a service extremely similar to Onavo. It's called Screenwise Meter. Identically to how Facebook was exploited enterprise certificates to circumvent the App Store policy, Google was doing the exact same: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-da... While they backed off on iOS when they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, Google kept it running on Android until this month, well over a year after Facebook shut down Onavo: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/11/03/googles-screenwise-meter-app-and-its-rewards-program-are-now-dead/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/11/03/googles-screenwise-... It's incredible to me that Facebook still has a worse image than Google: Google can do the exact same thing, for longer, and still people treat Facebook like they're a degree worse for some reason. Both ad companies are bad.
- rutthenut 6y agoNothing 'definite' about those statements, they are just opinions, as we all have. I'd say FB is worst because of their reuse and reselling of personal data, their deliberate designs of making their service more and more invasive, their purchase of competing services and monopolised approach to everything. Google are no saints either, not by a long stretch. Twitter has far more influence than anyone would expect
- kennywinker 6y agoToo late to edit or delete my comment here, but for the record I meant to say Facebook is WORSE than Google is WORSE than Twitter. I had '>' symbols and then decided to switch it to words without fully thinking thru the semantic meaning. Oops :(
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y ago> Google's public image is slightly better than that of Facebook Well, it depends who you ask. You can stop using FB, but not using Google products, even passively. is practically impossible.
- Nextgrid 6y agoStopping using Facebook is easy. Stopping being used by Facebook is just as hard if not more. Facebook has its spyware embedded in the majority of apps out there, most companies willingly share their customers' personal details with them for ad targeting purposes and Facebook uses social engineering to trick people into sharing their contacts list which includes your details.
- cwhiz 6y agoIt is better, but it shouldn't be. Google has destroyed or reshaped entire industries with their surveillance subsidized pricing model.
- goatinaboat 6y agoAlso interesting that Google would want to be anywhere close to being associated with Facebook. Interesting but unsurprising. Maybe they’ve realised that by now no one in the entire world is still fooled by their “do no evil” pantomime.
- laurent92 6y ago« Let’s fight antitrust lawsuit by... forming a trust between top-level companies » – Indeed I agree it doesn’t look best.
- _the_inflator 6y agoI disagree. This is pretty common and normal. Even Apple and Google work together in certain areas. We should not rush to judgment here and they can defend themselves.
- konschubert 6y agoThe first line of the article implies that this is an old agreement that they talked about "in case". This was from before the suits against them were filed.
- willis936 6y agoHow does that change anything?
- zcw100 6y agoWhy would it be better that they anticipated the current situation years ahead of time and then took actions that would allow them to continue to do it be better than it simply being reactionary? This is way worse.
- konschubert 6y agoIt makes it more evil. But also less stupid.