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Trite reminder: Google sells advertising, not email accounts. P**ing off an individual email user (or many tens of thousands of them) is not something they are

Trite reminder: Google sells advertising, not email accounts. P**ing off an individual email user (or many tens of thousands of them) is not something they are going to worry about. What are you going to do, stop using the Internet?

tourmalinetaco 3y ago
> What are you going to do, stop using the Internet? No, simply cut them out of my life while using AdNauseum to bleed them dry. The Internet existed before Google and will continue existing after they are gone.
prepend 3y ago
What I’m going to do is not trust google. Not trust their AdWords and look for alternatives. Not trust GCP and use aws and azure. Not trust new products. Google’s brand is interconnected and it’s shortsighted of them to think “it’s just a few thousand inconvenienced.” Imagine if Whole Foods also had a product line that sold caviar and they swapped it out for dog shit and they didn’t care because it only affected a few thousand customers. It’s not the number of customers that are important, it’s the reflection of the organization. It’s deontology vs utilitarianism. Trying to do spot based utilitarian calculations without considering what principles lead to overall good is a stupid thing for an org to do.
- justin66 3y ago
  Somewhere a Google executive is writhing on the floor, moaning from pain and despair. "Prepend's words burn like fire." As the OP said, What are you going to do, stop using the Internet?
  - allarm 3y ago
    I use the Internet just fine without google, not sure what you’re on.
  - prepend 3y ago
    I am Spartacus.
- ghusto 3y ago
  I would agree, but it's observably not true since their brand going to shit has had no effect. If it had, they wouldn't continue being as terrible as they are.
  - prepend 3y ago
    It takes a long time for big companies to collapse. I mean Novell was still around until 2014 and they peaked and sucked since like 1995. Google can coast for 30 more years, or longer. Comcast is slowly dying but will be profitable for a long, long time. So you can have a bad brand and exist for a long time.
    - ghusto 3y ago
      If this was true, it's going to hurt a lot more than Novell and Microsoft's domination :(
ratsmack 3y ago
Google is run by accountants and the bottom line is all that matters.

tourmalinetaco 3y ago

> What are you going to do, stop using the Internet? No, simply cut them out of my life while using AdNauseum to bleed them dry. The Internet existed before Google and will continue existing after they are gone.

prepend 3y ago

What I’m going to do is not trust google. Not trust their AdWords and look for alternatives. Not trust GCP and use aws and azure. Not trust new products. Google’s brand is interconnected and it’s shortsighted of them to think “it’s just a few thousand inconvenienced.” Imagine if Whole Foods also had a product line that sold caviar and they swapped it out for dog shit and they didn’t care because it only affected a few thousand customers. It’s not the number of customers that are important, it’s the reflection of the organization. It’s deontology vs utilitarianism. Trying to do spot based utilitarian calculations without considering what principles lead to overall good is a stupid thing for an org to do.

justin66 3y ago
Somewhere a Google executive is writhing on the floor, moaning from pain and despair. "Prepend's words burn like fire." As the OP said, What are you going to do, stop using the Internet?
- allarm 3y ago
  I use the Internet just fine without google, not sure what you’re on.
- prepend 3y ago
  I am Spartacus.
ghusto 3y ago
I would agree, but it's observably not true since their brand going to shit has had no effect. If it had, they wouldn't continue being as terrible as they are.
- prepend 3y ago
  It takes a long time for big companies to collapse. I mean Novell was still around until 2014 and they peaked and sucked since like 1995. Google can coast for 30 more years, or longer. Comcast is slowly dying but will be profitable for a long, long time. So you can have a bad brand and exist for a long time.
  - ghusto 3y ago
    If this was true, it's going to hurt a lot more than Novell and Microsoft's domination :(

ratsmack 3y ago

Google is run by accountants and the bottom line is all that matters.