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Google has been going down that path for a long time, they won't stop until the web looks like cable tv, every part infested with adds with content reduced to t
by nathias 3y ago
Google has been going down that path for a long time, they won't stop until the web looks like cable tv, every part infested with adds with content reduced to target the lowest denominator among the greatest number of people. It should have been broken up in smaller companies 20 years ago.
- gxs 3y agoI’ve been avoiding them like the plague. Thinking back years, going back to my first Debian install in 2000, in retrospect this is where things were always heading. It’s the same path every other industry has gone down, to ultimately yield all power to a few large corporations. The main issue with this is that even if you have a group of people passionately defending against this, googles attempts will likely persist long after any one person or group is no longer able to work against. On a side note, this is part of the reason why corporations were never intended to be allowed to exist as long as they do today, they were supposed to come with an expiration date. Not sure dismantling a company like Google is the right play, it just amazes me how much foresight people had 100 years ago and that we still let a bunch of those things happen.