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by zavi 8y ago
Their cloud business doubles every year. Play & hardware are also considerable now: https://qz.com/1334369/alphabet-q2-2018-earnings-google-is-m...
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by zavi 8y ago
I'm not sure I'd call them desperate looking at the valuation, 20+% revenue growth, and the fact that EU keeps pushing legislation that increasingly cements their dominance against any potential competition in the region.
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by zavi 8y ago
Nope. See other comment.
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by zavi 8y ago
If only everybody was as enlightened as us, Vivaldi users. Too bad those illiterate masses don't know what's good for them.
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by zavi 8y ago
This has been going on for over a year now. A lot of astroturfing coupled with misinformation criticizing predominantly US-based incumbents. I think there are a few mods with a political agenda who are pushing this. Often the advertised rep
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by zavi 8y ago
Do they really use email content for ad targeting or are you spreading misinformation?
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by zavi 8y ago
You should appeal if what you're saying is indeed true. You're supposed to use advertising ID for any ad-related tracking - if you use something more sensitive instead (like IMEI) then you'll get taken down.
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by zavi 8y ago
Chinese treatment of US tech companies (forced technology transfer, IP theft, censorship) is the primary reason why US is imposing tariffs on China. One can see that from reading the primary sources (i.e. press releases on wh.gov).
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by zavi 8y ago
Why would you not pay an extra 25% when buying from AliExpress?
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by zavi 8y ago
Doing whatever it takes to get personal benefit even though it screws over others is the opposite of collectivism. As somedy who lived in China, Europe, and the US the notion of people in China being less selfish and less likely to cheat th
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by zavi 8y ago
This is overblown, people's livelihoods don't rely on Inbox. Most features are in Gmail now anyways. And no whataboutism please, this deprecarion event is about Inbox, not some other product.
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by zavi 8y ago
Gmail, Chrome, Play, Maps seem pretty successful to me.
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by zavi 8y ago
This is fantastic for Google in Europe - they aren't making money from hobbyist publishing remixes and can easily filter it out with the infrastructure and training data they already have. They make money off Despacito and the likes wi
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by zavi 8y ago
Both GDPR and this were intended to hurt American tech giants. However the people pushing this have very little understanding of how internet works so it would certainly have the opposite effect. The grim reality is that deregulation is the
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by zavi 8y ago
News are mostly clickbait cancer anyways, if this is the final nail in their coffin (if Google/Reddit/Facebook stops serving news) so be it. Tech Giants will do just fine under this, just how Chinese tech giants are able to do the
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by zavi 8y ago
A quick look at the market share numbers instantly renders this article false.
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by zavi 8y ago
That's right, the typical HN users are some of the finest intellectuals who would never act criminally due to their superior intellect and morals. Most of us are from Norway actually.
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by zavi 8y ago
Nothing, OP is ignorant. Google does AMP to make webpages faster cause they make money from people clicking on links.
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by zavi 8y ago
Nominal GDP is used to measure country market sizes, sorry.
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by zavi 8y ago
By monetary measure.
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by zavi 8y ago
Ah yes, the superior thinking of top minds that frequent news.ycombinator.com
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by zavi 8y ago
Abundance of cells. This is a properly formed English sentence.
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by zavi 8y ago
Most users are outside of the US for these companies.
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by zavi 8y ago
Such as?
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by zavi 8y ago
GDPR doesn't force Google to censor search results. Right to Be Forgotten does though. Just replace one with another and your argument becomes valid.
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by zavi 8y ago
> Its pretty clear they have no moral issue with censoring for profit. This has been evidently true since they didn't leave Europe after Right to Be Forgotten. They make good revenue in Europe which justifies having to censor result
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by zavi 8y ago
Just go incognito
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by zavi 8y ago
> Google knows where you live, where you work, where you bank, who you're dating How do they know who I'm dating?
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by zavi 8y ago
How did they justify it in Sweden then?
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by zavi 8y ago
If you have good reasons not to believe then you can sue Google and make $$$. Otherwise you're just hurting yourself.

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