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Trying to reach official authorities is a good idea. I will quote and extend part of my call to action I did in an other thread - ban Google all together in yo
by exceptione 3y ago
Trying to reach official authorities is a good idea.
I will quote and extend part of my call to action I did in an other thread
- ban Google all together in your personal life. No chrome and no excuses. Stop the bullshit or leave this profession. Use startpage, duckduck or whatever for searching.
- develop with and for firefox and friends only, introduce usability problems for chrome
- employ the same tactics as google.
-> Bundle firefox with the software you are distributing.
-> Like google did, remove the competition altogether from the users device.
-> make your npm-module or your website slower in chrome
-> let your customers know that your service for non-chrome users is cheaper. Money motivates.
-> show a popup urging users to download firefox, provide a link to download or page with more explanation.
Tell that you detected that their current chrome has security and privacy risks and that you recommend to take action immediately. Average user is easily scared into action.
-> use as many tricks as you can think of to spoil the well for google.
Destroy search results, fill their storage with /dev/random, whatever your imagination leads you too. You keep telling us you are so smart. Show it.
- remember, Google's capital is data. Hit that and the beast will die.
- xur17 3y ago> show a popup urging users to download firefox, provide a link to download or page with more explanation. Tell that you detected that their current chrome has security and privacy risks and that you recommend to take action immediately. Average user is easily scared into action. If I recall correctly, this was Google's approach with Chrome.
- bmacho 3y agoSo were the other items in the "employ the same tactics as google." list.
- xur17 3y agoThat's what I get for skimming the post, lol.
- thejosh 3y agoAnd is the same tactics Microsoft uses with Edge. Try and download Chrome on edge, and you'll have Microsoft begging you not to download it.
- lancesells 3y agoThis is still Google's approach.
- RunSet 3y agoGoogle's approach with Chrome was to pay shareware developers to bundle it in the installer and expect users wouldn't opt-out.
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- prox 3y agoGoing to do this. This is brilliant! -> let your customers know that your service for non-chrome users is cheaper. Money motivates.
- appleflaxen 3y agoThis suggestion is particularly brilliant
- lancesells 3y agoAlso use robots.txt to block Google if you can afford to. I've blocked them (and everyone else) from everything but my homepage.
- PawgerZ 3y agoI'm not well versed on scrapers. How do you fill their storage with /dev/random? Did they employ this tactic on competitors at one point as with the rest of your psot?
- exceptione 3y agogmail, google storage, contacts, content farms, Google slurps everything it can find. /dev/random would be something for storage. For other stuff you would fake data. No, not all the tips listed have been take from their playbook.
- throw10920 3y ago> - employ the same tactics as google. This is incredibly hypocritical. I would never want to work with or for, or employ, or be friends with or associate myself with someone who blatantly displayed this level of hypocrisy and lack of integrity. This comment is also clearly violating the HN guidelines - it's not intellectually interesting, it's naked political activism.
- exceptione 3y agoPolitical? You are overly optimistic. We wish there would be some notion and attention of the politeia here. On hypocrisy: Both cancer and cancer surgery are aggressive, doesn't make them the same. Google violated competition laws, we as individuals don't.
- Slava_Propanei 3y ago[dead]
- unstuck3958 3y ago> show a popup urging users to download firefox, provide a link to download or page with more explanation. Has anyone already made a template for this that you can easily include in your website?