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Google is, uh, not just email. https://about.google/products/ https://about.google/products/

• cheriot 5y ago
  The topic of the post was email. Even expanding to every other product, which ones are you forced to use? Just pick another one. Calling this feudalism is a bit much.
  • nicce 5y ago
    Email was just an example. Topic is about account.
  • commonalitydev 5y ago
    If I understood his post and overall point correctly, he doesn’t think that it’s that second possibility — that Google is a benevolent tyrant, essentially — but that that’s the only other explanation, which is bad. (I agree that the language he used was a bit much, but I think he was using exaggeration as a legitimate literary device to make his point, not in an attempt to actually mischaracterize that scenario.) He think it’s the first possibility — that Google is doing it for reasons other than the users’ best interests (i.e. “nefarious purposes”) — which is even worse.