Yeah, I wouldn’t take him as a completely reliable narrator, but still an interesting inside perspective
Comment on A Googler who just resigned after 18 years reflects on the decline of the company he loved
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lost me completely at
Much of the criticism Google received around Chrome and Search, especially around supposed conflicts of interest with Ads, was way off base
Both are ad delivery services that sometimes do something slightly resembling benefiting the end user.
If not for near-monopoly market share and therefore everything being integrated with and “optimised” for both, nobody who cares enough to know would use that crap willingly.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
FishFace@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Chrome built its market share on desktop up over many many years.
I also think you’re underestimating the number of people who couldn’t care less if a company harvests their data for ad personalisation - by this point the majority of people understand Facebook’s business strategy, but they still have over a billion users. The preferences of us terminally online folks are not the preferences of the population at large.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, by making the best product. Then once they’d achieved the market donination necessary to not lose everyone, they changed that product from optimised for best user experience to optimised for maximum ad revenue.
No, I am aware that they’re sadly the majority. Hence why I specifically said “anyone who cares enough to know better”
You don’t have to be “terminally online” (which is a slur invented by the wilfully ignorant to denigrate people with different interests and priorities than them, no matter how much you try to reclaim it) to care about basic privacy rights, but yeah, that sentence is otherwise correct, as I said earlier.
FishFace@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I see, I thought you meant by that “anyone who knows about what Google is doing with personal data”.
I use it self-deprecatingly. Calling it a “slur” is overblowing it, and even though it’s used as an insult - I don’t care. To be insulted by someone I have to value the person’s opinion.