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Your link has this : http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Am I supposed to install an opt-out plugin for every single tracking service in the world? There are hundereds of those, and asking each of them to voluntarily stop tracking me makes no sense.
Bullshit
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Re: Bullshit
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Google just doesn't behave like this. I've talked to many people that work there (and I will be one of them soon), and this is just not the culture. Google maintains webfonts because someone said, "hey, our products would be better if they didn't look like shit on certain machines". Someone else agreed and now they have their own fonts. (Part of Android's look-and-feel is based on fonts, too, so it makes sense that i…
They have 393 fonts as of today. Don't you think it's a bit excessive for sprucing up their own products? Also, considering a milder version of "don't be evil" angle - they are effectively on a route to nuke paid online typeface services or render them economically unfeasible to a vast majority of foundries. A policy not very much unlike Microsoft's when they were undercutting superior products and pushing them off t…
Yes, this is bad for companies that sell fonts. But selling fonts never made sense for the Web; even if a designer buys a font, the end-user still needs to own the font the designer specified. Paying for fonts would mean that every web user would have to buy several fonts for every web page they visited, which is not something they would do.
It's good for the openness of the Web when fonts are available freely, and Google only makes money when the Web can be open. So they give away fonts.
(They also bought VP7 and open-source many of their internal projects for this reason. They want to send a message: compete on an open playing field or become irrelevant.)
Re: Bullshit
#233Quite disingenuous to state that "Android is open" is bullshit and at the same time
the article finds no mention of Apple's overarching "closed is better for you" attitude.
(Yes, the article hints at Apple's closed-ness. However, only relatively minor, disconnected, issues. Not the overall attitude.)