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Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against Google?
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Re: Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against Google?
#2Karma.
Google has always been super ruthless in their data gathering practices. I think the recent uproar is just the tip of the iceberg. Shit's happening for real this time.
Re: Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against Google?
#3The Google Chrome change was serious for Chrome users (and really even non-Chrome users because it affects most of the people you probably know and hang out with since many of them use Chrome).
The issue could have more easily been resolved with a dialogue if you log into a new Google account while Chrome is logged into a separate account saying, "Your browsers is logged in as x. Would you like to add y to your x account? (Say no on a public or shared computer)."
Honestly I had trouble with Google starting in 2012 with the PRISM revelations (which either aren't true or everyone has collectively dismissed).
Google is today what Microsoft was in the 90s. I'd be happier if we just had more options of search. I hate that we went from Lycos, Hotbot, Yahoo, Dogpile, Excite and others to just Google, DDG and Bing.
Re: Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against Google?
#4Karma. Google has always been super ruthless in their data gathering practices. I think the recent uproar is just the tip of the iceberg. Shit's happening for real this time.
I hope so.
Re: Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against Google?
#5Karma. Google has always been super ruthless in their data gathering practices. I think the recent uproar is just the tip of the iceberg. Shit's happening for real this time.
Being cynical here. From fines GDPR & friends incoming and maximise profits before they forced to pay to market already saturated and without pissing user base there will be no double digit 'adaptation' rate
Re: Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against Google?
#6It's not easy to change so quickly. I'm dissatisfied with Google since years, but changing away from GMail requires me to change dozens of registrations. Oh and GDoc, I have tons of documents there, both and shared and private, not an easy task to migrate that away.
Same with Facebook, it takes ages. I don't care so much about them but others do. With time people changed real names to Pseudonyms, deinstalled the App etc.
Re: Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against Google?
#7I have noticed this too. There's been a Google-negative article of some sort or another near the top of the front page for days now.
Is this an external news cycle, a feedback loop where people saw "Chrome doesn't delete Google cookies" yesterday and upvote "Maps stores your home address" today, or a conspiracy intentionally submitting this series of articles?
Re: Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against Google?
#8I have noticed this too. There's been a Google-negative article of some sort or another near the top of the front page for days now. Is this an external news cycle, a feedback loop where people saw "Chrome doesn't delete Google cookies" yesterday and upvote "Maps stores your home address" today, or a conspiracy intentionally submitting this series of articles?
Or maybe it's just Google making a lot of misguided decisions for their anniversary release.
Re: Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against Google?
#9The stars somehow aligned (or misaligned) and Google pulled a whole lot of bad decisions at the same time.
Re: Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against Google?
#10It's been happening for years. A few last straws lately?
Google did a lot to gain the trust of it's users over a decade ago. What it did and said as an organization was that they were the good guys and could be trusted, and that everyone else was evil. Google were the stewards of the internet.
Maybe it was after they took the company public but it slowly started to ratchet in the other direction. Products became increasingly and heavily monetized or shut down entirely. More and more attempts at lock-in and data control. That's fine for a business but in the case of Google, because of their earlier approach and saying the exact opposite, it was a total bait-and-switch.