Yeah, said a dude who posts on medium in 2020
lols whats wrong with medium
Popups and paywalls and bloated pages.
Google Will Collapse
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#23The article makes big swooping statements like "treating people as people turned out to be a winning strategy" but fails to adequately explain what that means here.
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#24Well that was an underwhelming argument..
google is shit random links* - DOWNLOAD BRAVE!"
My (and please feel free to take a pop at me) riposte is that Google is the single large Internet company that keeps encroaching into my privacy/life - but gives me enough carrot with each stick for me to forgive them. Yes, I'm being data-raped, but they're actually pretty open with it and provide me some use from this data. e.g. Years ago I was shocked at seeing that I was being tracked on the maps timeline. But, it meant I could identify that great restaurant I was trying to remember.
I had the option to turn off the tracking.. but well it's really useful. Then you see your last holiday came with free-tracking and your free-pixel photos inserted into a lovely timeline.. grinds teeth at the intrusion, but loves the nostalgic montage
They also have been successful in opening my wallet - no more youtube adverts for me (and yes, you can block them in the browser, but then that doesn't pay the creator). Also paid for Drive - originally that, drop-box or Onedrive flips coin - but best client, API for my NAS, could add backup for my Mum's PC.. It was better so I bit, but kept finding more useful stuff being added.
As a counterargument - "Facebook". I used to think it was magic, but every interaction annoys me. "Why don't you connect to these people???! - Because I've no idea who any of them are.
Ebay - Doesn't seem to offer me anything more, except more shite each time I try to use it. Expensive AliExpress at best.
Amazon - actually great for shopping, nice integration of third party stuff. Easily winner in cloud hosting - and great example of horizontal gubbins.
MS - Under Satya actually interesting once more - and as I was convinced they were going insane, proof that I've no idea what I'm talking about.
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#25Reminds me of this Dilbert: https://dilbert.com/strip/2002-08-26
Please don't remind me of Scott Adams, who makes sock puppets to pose as his own biggest fan on message boards to defend and flatter himself.
https://comicsalliance.com/scott-adams-plannedchaos-sockpupp...
"And he's a certified genius. Just sayin'." -Scott Adam's Sock Puppet plannedchaos, on Scott Adams.
Women are "treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It's just easier this way for everyone." -Scott Adams
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#26If you are going to continuously edit a soothsaying prediction about Google's doomsday date since 2017 and place a bet on Brave succeeding while they keep using Google's technology (Chromium now maintained by Googlers), it very well appears that the authors crystal ball is a faulty one.
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#27A bit dated and sensationalist, but still has some good points. Maybe Google won’t collapse outright, but they are facing challenges on a lot of fronts. Everything from employees unionising, antitrust legislation both at home and abroad, massive loss-leaders like YouTube, and advertising market challenges. Worst of all is probably the reputational damage. They used to be the darling of technologists everywhere, but c…
I thought a recent article here said YouTube passed the break-even point in 2015
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#28If you are going to continuously edit a soothsaying prediction about Google's doomsday date since 2017 and place a bet on Brave succeeding while they keep using Google's technology (Chromium now maintained by Googlers), it very well appears that the authors crystal ball is a faulty one.
> (Chromium now maintained by Googlers)
“now” sort of implies there was a time when Chromium existed but was maintained by someone else.
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#29A bit dated and sensationalist, but still has some good points. Maybe Google won’t collapse outright, but they are facing challenges on a lot of fronts. Everything from employees unionising, antitrust legislation both at home and abroad, massive loss-leaders like YouTube, and advertising market challenges. Worst of all is probably the reputational damage. They used to be the darling of technologists everywhere, but c…
I thought a recent article here said YouTube passed the break-even point in 2015
They might have been profitable before the adpocalypse, but I highly doubt that’s still the case. They lost a huge chunk of ad revenue then, and will be losing another huge chunk with the new COPPA rules forbidding them from serving ads on videos targetting children.
Combine that with a massive rise in staffing costs from all the new "Trust and Safety" people they’ve added.
Of course, Alphabet are keeping the actual figures under wraps, but I’d consider it highly unlikely that it’s looking good.
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#30A bit dated and sensationalist, but still has some good points. Maybe Google won’t collapse outright, but they are facing challenges on a lot of fronts. Everything from employees unionising, antitrust legislation both at home and abroad, massive loss-leaders like YouTube, and advertising market challenges. Worst of all is probably the reputational damage. They used to be the darling of technologists everywhere, but c…
> A bit dated It does seem dated, but the author has continued to edit it since it was originally written. He's got stuff from 2018 and 2019 in there. > massive loss-leaders like YouTube Citation needed.
Citations are a bit tricky, since Google keeps YouTube’s financials secret, but from what I hear, it’s been in the red ever since the adpocalypse, and the new COPPA-rules will not help, since all content targeting children will now also be demonetised.