Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against Google?

People finally waking up to the what Google really is, perhaps?

Because now it's not only affecting their users but their competitors too.

Alphabet is too big now, it needs to be broken. Gmail, YouTube, ChromeOS, Google Chrome, Google Pixel, Android, Google Play, Google Search, Google Maps,Google Ads. They all need to be individual competing companies.

Recent? There have been spurts of uproars about google ( and tech/social media ) for a while now, nationally and internationally.

After obama won in 2008 and 2012, there was conservative/republican backlash against tech/social media amd it's "negative" impact on election. There were people saying that the saudis, chinese and even the russians were exploiting social media to help obama win the election and divide/destroy the nation. Sound familiar? The democrats and the establishment media laughed at these claims and called them conspiracies, delusions and republican being sore losers. Funny how an election changes everything.

The recent uproar is directly tied to Trump's election. Now it's the democrats and establishment media attacking tech/social media because their candidate lost. So the democrats and the media are complaining the same thing the the republicans did after their candidates lost in 2008/2012.

When obama won, it's was how great social media is. The NYTimes was praising social media for helping obama topple the "clinton machine" and john mccain in 2008.

"fight smear campaigns and get out the vote that helped them topple the Clinton machine and then John McCain and the Republicans."

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.htm...

Even in 2016, people were praising social media and obama.

https://www.engadget.com/2016/01/12/president-obama-social-n...

The hypocrisy in the political and media landscape is quite something huh?

As for the international scene, from china to egypt and beyond, governments have been upset about google trying to manipulate their people and cause disruption. With the recent revelations of how political google truly is, I guess they were right and foreign governments are going to demand lot more control over google in their countries. You reap what you sow.

It must be fashionable now to hate on Google, but they are still miles ahead of other guys. They may no longer "not be evil" but to me they're still the least evil option compared to other companies. Besides, Google has done many wonderful things for our generation. We've been taking things for granted, imagine a world without Google search. Remember Yahoo!?

The Chrome 69 changes probably were the straw that broke the camels back.

Enabling inherent behavior without really doing a good job at all of notifying or even letting the user know what's up is pretty scummy behavior to me.