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Google is not your friend and must be treated as an adversary.
by tragictrash 5y ago
Google is not your friend and must be treated as an adversary.
- J5892 5y agoThis applies to literally any public corporation.
- alistairSH 5y agoPerhaps, but in a normal business partnernship, you have contracts that spell out the terms and means of recourse. With Google ad services, you have vague ToS spelled out by one party and no real recourse.
- tragictrash 5y agoI don't think every corp really warrants this kind of response. Google has a monopoly, and does an exceptionally poor job of assisting their customers. It is not the norm.
- gumby 5y ago> > Google is not your friend and must be treated as an adversary. > This applies to literally any public corporation. I can clearly see the "not your friend" part. Are all public corporations the adversaries of citizens though? I'm not sure. I'm not asking for edge cases: companies tend to be friends and not adversaries for their CEOs, for example, and I can imagine that Red Hat (when independent) was not any individual's adversary). But it a good heuristic that any given public company will be your adversary? Certainly none really care about you.
- grog454 5y ago>Are all public corporations the adversaries of citizens though? In a way, yes. Public corporations generally seek profit maximization. Rational consumers seek value maximization. More profit for seller = less value for consumer. Less profit for seller = more value for consumer. This is an adversarial situation by definition.
- coffeefirst 5y agoMaybe but having no mechanism for recourse is pretty unusual. Even Heath insurance companies, which are one step above bloodsucking parasites, have phone support that can actually do stuff.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoHealth insurance companies are subject to tons of regulations per the Affordable Care Act. One which does not allow them to refuse customers and another which gives customers the right to appeal to a third party. https://www.healthcare.gov/appeal-insurance-company-decision/appeals/ https://www.healthcare.gov/appeal-insurance-company-decision...
- george0812 5y agoI have never worked with a company as evil as Google. What adds insult to injury is the fact their mantra used to be: Don't be evil!
- jessaustin 5y agoI stopped working with a particular firm immediately after they dropped their "we never eat children" motto.
- grog454 5y agoI feel like when you choose a motto/mantra like "Don't be evil" you're locked in to it because of the obvious implication of removing it.