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Aka the Google model

• NovemberWhiskey 5y ago
  Yeah, but, probably you're not Google's customer; you're their product.
  • majani 5y ago
    Most people who complain about Google are either paying for G suite or ad partners in the Adsense program. Those are Google customers and partners
• cyberpunk 5y ago
  Oh yes. Have you ever really tried to speak to someone at google? It's an educational experience, it teaches you the value of patience, the impermanence of everything. It's a bit like what I imagine being inside the total perspective vortex is like. > The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife. > Trin Tragula – for that was his name – was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. She would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake. > “Have some sense of proportion!” she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day. > And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex, just to show her. > Into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it. > To Trin Tragula’s horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot have is a sense of proportion.
  • forgotpwd16 5y ago
    >Have you ever really tried to speak to someone at google? Thought such thing wasn't even possible.
    • granshaw 5y ago
      It’s very easy if you’re a Google Ads customer. Really underscores the “you’re not the customer, you’re the product” saying