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> ” If Apple or Mozilla did anything remotely like this, Hacker News would riot.” My perception is that, collectively, HN hates and criticizes Google much more

• cronaday 4y ago
  Just suggesting that prior browser and OS privacy blowups involving those companies have been over less worrisome things, not that those companies are subject to more or less criticism. Looking back on outraged discussions of Mozilla's telemetry is kinda quaint in comparison.
• hericium 4y ago
  > My perception is that, collectively, HN hates and criticizes Google much more than Apple and Mozilla. Not the entirety of HN. As I have more than once delicately pointed out[1], Mozilla is Google's bitch. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30732539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30732539
• dmitriid 4y ago
  > I mean, much more. Because Google is a web advertisement company that dominates many large spheres: search, browsers (including standards committees), email, mobile (Android is 77% market share) etc. All are things that we've come to view as crucial to modern life. And time and again they've shown that they only view that dominance as a funnel for ad revenue, data collection, and whatever benefits them at this particular moment.
• marcosdumay 4y ago
  > HN hates and criticizes Google much more than Apple and Mozilla. That is mostly because Apple almost never does something like this, and Mozilla literally never does.