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Since when have comments become so obnoxious on HN? A very large portion of the population willingly and happily uses Google products. These new tools make it

Since when have comments become so obnoxious on HN? A very large portion of the population willingly and happily uses Google products. These new tools make it easier to remove unwanted data about yourself from search. That's a good thing. Please stop it with the "Google bad" circle jerk and realize that the majority of non-nerds has a very different perspective on this.

kelnos 3y ago
Circle jerk or not, Google is bad, and there's no reason why we shouldn't talk about that fact. Doesn't really matter if tons of people use Google products with whatever level of happiness they have. Google is the perpetrator of serious privacy abuses, and we should rightly be skeptical any time they write about improving people's privacy online.
- exitheone 3y ago
  Reasonable discussion of this would be fine. 90% of comments being snarky and adding absolutely nothing to the topic is not.
  - BLKNSLVR 3y ago
    I see your point, it's the low value posts that are the problem, which is lazy non-non-nerds not actually helping to explain why bad.
  - realusername 3y ago
    Because the blog post itself is also snarky and adds absolutely nothing to the topic either. The biggest tracking company in the world is talking about privacy controls, how else we are supposed to take that other than sarcasm?
BLKNSLVR 3y ago
Let us have our non-non-nerd whinge about companies that are, legitimately, bad in terms of individual privacy, especially when they're publishing a blog article about protecting privacy. You're not wrong about the non-nerds, but that's the same about anyone who doesn't possess the knowledge to know better. If we didn't call it out, it would become normalised even faster. I can't live with that.
qup 3y ago
Why do we care what non-nerds think? This board is full of subject matter experts.
- shapefrog 3y ago
  This board is full of people who think they are subject matter experts. Dunning and Kruger have some notes on the matter.

kelnos 3y ago

Circle jerk or not, Google is bad, and there's no reason why we shouldn't talk about that fact. Doesn't really matter if tons of people use Google products with whatever level of happiness they have. Google is the perpetrator of serious privacy abuses, and we should rightly be skeptical any time they write about improving people's privacy online.

exitheone 3y ago
Reasonable discussion of this would be fine. 90% of comments being snarky and adding absolutely nothing to the topic is not.
- BLKNSLVR 3y ago
  I see your point, it's the low value posts that are the problem, which is lazy non-non-nerds not actually helping to explain why bad.
- realusername 3y ago
  Because the blog post itself is also snarky and adds absolutely nothing to the topic either. The biggest tracking company in the world is talking about privacy controls, how else we are supposed to take that other than sarcasm?

BLKNSLVR 3y ago

Let us have our non-non-nerd whinge about companies that are, legitimately, bad in terms of individual privacy, especially when they're publishing a blog article about protecting privacy. You're not wrong about the non-nerds, but that's the same about anyone who doesn't possess the knowledge to know better. If we didn't call it out, it would become normalised even faster. I can't live with that.

qup 3y ago

Why do we care what non-nerds think? This board is full of subject matter experts.

shapefrog 3y ago
This board is full of people who think they are subject matter experts. Dunning and Kruger have some notes on the matter.