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Google continuing to forge ahead with the drug-dealer business model... Seriously Google, are you trying to convince even yourselves that you are just IBM with

Google continuing to forge ahead with the drug-dealer business model... Seriously Google, are you trying to convince even yourselves that you are just IBM with slightly better food? I mean, this change just reeks of "we're out of ideas but the bean counters told us we need to find change in the couch somewhere".

hot_gril 3y ago
Their motto was "don't be evil," which translated to "don't take profits too early." Now they're in the profit-taking stage.
- m00x 3y ago
  Sundar is doing to Google what Steve Ballmer did to MSFT.
  - FirmwareBurner 3y ago
    Joke's on him. Steve Blamer has an estimated net worth of 120 billion while Sundar is estimate "only" at 1.6 billion. He could afford to hire Sundar as his pool boy. He probably also has car who's doors open like this, not like this.
    - reactordev 3y ago
      He’ll be a quatro comas member before too long. Not tres, quatro…
    - ipsum2 3y ago
      That comparison doesn't make much sense, since Ballmer made his money by holding on to Microsoft stock after he left.
    - frfl 3y ago
      As a visual aid for readers, car who's doors open like \|/, not like [|] https://youtu.be/0oV4IVy8tvE?t=66 https://youtu.be/0oV4IVy8tvE?t=66
      - hot_gril 3y ago
        Hey, he's got my car. It doesn't make that beeping sound when you open it, though.
        FirmwareBurner 3y ago
        I think the open doors 'bong' sound is a feature to US/NA models only. Never hear it in Europe.
        hot_gril 3y ago
        Guess they carried the European way to the US. The US-model Maserati Quattroporte V doesn't have a "bong" sound. I don't think they gave us any extra cup-holders either.
  - hot_gril 3y ago
    I'm too young to remember much about Ballmer, I just know his "developers developers developers" speech that was far more candid and meaningful than Pichai's speeches. And it was on point, provide stable tooling and APIs to Windows devs.
    - loloquwowndueo 3y ago
      Oh you mean this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dB1SvnzLs8c https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dB1SvnzLs8c
gs17 3y ago
> with the drug-dealer business model Except there's another dealer selling at the old price and a third one giving even more away for free. hCaptcha is a pretty easy switch, and Turnstile has a reCAPTCHA compatibility mode.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
  Firebase Auth is pretty common and widely used. Any sort of phone number auth, like SMS second factor, requires reCAPTCHA. (And people can complain about how much SMS 2FA is bad, and I don't really disagree, but it is still pretty much a "lowest common denominator" method and many, many web users can't easily use TOTP or hardware keys). Switching out Firebase Auth is a much, much more difficult deal than just switching out reCAPTCHA.
  - hot_gril 3y ago
    Firebase is Google, so this is to be expected. Maybe they don't charge for those captchas though?
tonymet 3y ago
You can’t hate the player OR the game in this case because it works. It’s more like “fool me 100 times, shame on me”

hot_gril 3y ago

Their motto was "don't be evil," which translated to "don't take profits too early." Now they're in the profit-taking stage.

m00x 3y ago
Sundar is doing to Google what Steve Ballmer did to MSFT.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  Joke's on him. Steve Blamer has an estimated net worth of 120 billion while Sundar is estimate "only" at 1.6 billion. He could afford to hire Sundar as his pool boy. He probably also has car who's doors open like this, not like this.
  - reactordev 3y ago
    He’ll be a quatro comas member before too long. Not tres, quatro…
  - ipsum2 3y ago
    That comparison doesn't make much sense, since Ballmer made his money by holding on to Microsoft stock after he left.
  - frfl 3y ago
    As a visual aid for readers, car who's doors open like \|/, not like [|] https://youtu.be/0oV4IVy8tvE?t=66 https://youtu.be/0oV4IVy8tvE?t=66
    - hot_gril 3y ago
      Hey, he's got my car. It doesn't make that beeping sound when you open it, though.
      - FirmwareBurner 3y ago
        I think the open doors 'bong' sound is a feature to US/NA models only. Never hear it in Europe.
        hot_gril 3y ago
        Guess they carried the European way to the US. The US-model Maserati Quattroporte V doesn't have a "bong" sound. I don't think they gave us any extra cup-holders either.
- hot_gril 3y ago
  I'm too young to remember much about Ballmer, I just know his "developers developers developers" speech that was far more candid and meaningful than Pichai's speeches. And it was on point, provide stable tooling and APIs to Windows devs.
  - loloquwowndueo 3y ago
    Oh you mean this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dB1SvnzLs8c https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dB1SvnzLs8c

gs17 3y ago

> with the drug-dealer business model Except there's another dealer selling at the old price and a third one giving even more away for free. hCaptcha is a pretty easy switch, and Turnstile has a reCAPTCHA compatibility mode.

hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
Firebase Auth is pretty common and widely used. Any sort of phone number auth, like SMS second factor, requires reCAPTCHA. (And people can complain about how much SMS 2FA is bad, and I don't really disagree, but it is still pretty much a "lowest common denominator" method and many, many web users can't easily use TOTP or hardware keys). Switching out Firebase Auth is a much, much more difficult deal than just switching out reCAPTCHA.
- hot_gril 3y ago
  Firebase is Google, so this is to be expected. Maybe they don't charge for those captchas though?

tonymet 3y ago

You can’t hate the player OR the game in this case because it works. It’s more like “fool me 100 times, shame on me”