“Google: it is time to return to not being evil”

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Post by _lbaq » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 4:21 PM UTC

“Google: it is time to return to not being evil”
vivaldi.com

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Post by phr4ts » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 6:43 PM UTC

Summary: Google suspends AdWords campaigns of Vivaldi Browser after Vivaldi CEO wrote an anti-Google article

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Post by tryingagainbro » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 8:14 PM UTC

Vivaldi CEO – “Google: it is time to return to not being evil”

Me: that train has left the station. When you have monopoly power (70%-98% of market share) the governments should return Google and Whatever Corp to not being evil.

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Post by duncan_bayne » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 8:15 PM UTC

https://xkcd.com/743/

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 8:15 PM UTC

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Post by gaius » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 8:18 PM UTC

phr4ts wrote: post #2

Summary: Google suspends AdWords campaigns of Vivaldi Browser after Vivaldi CEO wrote an anti-Google article

That is not a summary. The article opens with Google faking breaking compatibility with Opera in order to push their own browser. Why fake? Because the services worked perfectly when faking the user agent...

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Post by MikeGale » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 8:32 PM UTC

There's a pattern here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/us/politics/eric-schmidt-...

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Post by lightedman » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 8:35 PM UTC

Really sounds like some sort of RICO or extortion charge should be filed against Google, assuming this is all 100% factual.

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Post by gsnedders » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 8:37 PM UTC

gaius wrote: post #6

phr4ts wrote: post #2

Summary: Google suspends AdWords campaigns of Vivaldi Browser after Vivaldi CEO wrote an anti-Google article

That is not a summary. The article opens with Google faking breaking compatibility with Opera in order to push their own browser. Why fake? Because the services worked perfectly when faking the user agent...

> The article opens with Google faking breaking compatibility with Opera in order to push their own browser.

It explicitly states that it got worse when they introduced their own browser, which implies it pre-dates their own browser.

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Post by drunkenmonkey » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 8:37 PM UTC

Applause for Vivaldi for the backbone to say something openly.