Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
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Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#2And Kevin Hart is taller than most female gynmasts.
It's hard for any organization (aside form Congress and Facebook) to not be more trusted than Google.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#3Times are changin’. All you young whippersnappers wouldn’t believe that back in my day, Microsoft was evil, Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy, and Google was the scrappy upstart who prided themselves on not serving ads and irrelevant fluff on the search results page.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#4What's happening? Google is a company where you are not the customer, you are the product. They have also reached a mature stage where the only thing left to do is squeeze society tightly for short-term gain through psychological manipulation. I trust neither the company nor anyone working there.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#5I generally avoid Google products, but I do not understand the animosity towards YouTube, nor why anyone would not just pay the very small fee for YouTube Premium and do away with all the ads. The content being created for YouTube is fantastic, you can easily watch news from all over the world, conference talks, lectures, interviews, in-depth documentaries and deep dive analysis that blows away anything you'll ever see on any mainstream platform. One particular strength is that creators don't seem too bound to producing videos for specific length of time. There are literally informative mini-documentaries 90 seconds long while others might go on for 4 hours and they cover every imaginable topic. This is definitely the last subscription I'd give up if I had to.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#6This is going to be one of those areas where many (but not all) HN + reddit users will need to check their bubble at the door. Both Microsoft and Google are widely trusted brands whether you slice it by consumers, developers, etc.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#7It's wrong to "trust" any company. Use the products that make your life easier, but understand that companies don't care about you. They care about making money.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#8This is a dumb take. They're both equally untrustworthy. VSCode has an insane amount of telemetry turned on, ChatGPT is monitoring everything you type, and GitHub was abused to train a LLM. Microsoft and Google have both shown they would sell your data in a heartbeat to make a quick buck.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#9make this make sense? what is this literally about? what is a coherent thought here? cause all that shows is just a haphazardly thrown together table of random stuff.
microsoft has just as shitty of a track record with killing products, poor privacy and overt data collection/telemetry, and just shitty/stagnating products.
like, remember that time they had a myriad of consumer products going on around windows 7/8 era, and then seemingly killed them all? windows phone, nokia/lumia, zune, xbox/groove music, microsoft band, and now cortana. a whole bunch of stuff that made up a holistic experience, that just does not exist anymore, not even presently within just microsoft.
Re: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?
#10Interesting, I still don't, though I acknowledge perhaps Google has the greater capacity for harm; here's why.
Over time, Google absolutely has been in a position to abuse data, and to some extent it has done so -- but honestly, if you compare what they COULD do to what they END UP DOING, they're not doing so bad at all. They mostly self-correct relatively nicely.
Microsoft, on the other hand, clearly does the bare minimum. They've had to be dragged kicking and screaming into actually providing a modicum of safety after more-or-less setting the stage for garbage tech security practices.