Ask HN: Is Google Evil Now?

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dotcoma · 2h ago

Big time and for a long time running, even if not as bad as Facebook.

abhishekpandey · 59m ago

Yes

bigyabai · 3h ago

All of FAANG has espoused anti-consumer sentiments for longer than the notion of FAANG has existed.

If you at any point thought they weren't evil, that means their marketing worked flawlessly.

sudohalt · 2h ago

Yes they are. A prime example is them providing technological resources for the holocaust happening in Gaza. What’s more evil then abetting an actual holocaust?

the_hoser · 3h ago

Now?

dlcarrier · 2h ago

That was exactly my reaction.

They'd been tossing with being evil for a while, but I feel like Google Plus was their New Coke moment, where they momentarily went too far, then backed off to the "classic" Google, while secretly replacing sucrose with the worse testing fructose.

Before then, Google was an advertising company with a bunch of side projects to increase user interaction, so advertisers has somewhere to show ads.

Since then, every part of Google has been working to lock in the user base while trying to extract as much as possible from them.

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