I don’t even know if it’s still an official motto.
It’s not
Comment on Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data
Kinglink@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Jesus Christ.
Remember when Google’s Motto was “Don’t be Evil” It was supposed to be a jab at Microsoft, but it feels like every year tech companies find news ways to just be fucking evil.
PS. Google kind of fails to live up to that motto too, I don’t even know if it’s still an official motto.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 8 months ago
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
No they officially (quietly) dropped it like a decade ago
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 8 months ago
No, they didn’t. Alphabet was created as a parent company in 2015 and uses the similarly vague “Do the right thing” in their code of conduct. Google itself still has “Don’t be evil” in their code of conduct, unchanged. Google needed Alphabet to not be Google (or they’d get fined to hell) so having everything identical wouldn’t have been a smart idea.
That this easily Google-able myth is so pervasive is a wonderful microcosm about online gullibility and laziness.
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of…
Wow literally the first thing i searched.
And get fucked for your tone you predantic little punk.
Promethiel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Love the vibe and energy against pretense for pretense sakes, but your source makes you seem demented as it literally repeats exactly what they said if you read it.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Read your own article all the way to the bottom ❤️
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Kind of? They would happily sell your mother heroine and auction off her house. They fail at not being evil like Antarctica fails at being hospitable to palm trees.
MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I’m all for crapping on large publicly traded companies but lumping Google in with companies that sell your data isn’t honest. Google does not and never has sold user data. They sure as hell use your data for their own ad network but they do not sell that data wholesale. Meta and other data brokers sell your data and this Avast company sells your data through a product they claimed stopped tracking. I’m not pro-Google but to compare their business model (which is very transparent about how it handles your data and how it’s never sold) to Avast’s business model (which is to completely lie to the end user while literally selling everything that user does) is not an honest comparison.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Corporations have no soul to damn and no body to incarcerate.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 8 months ago
Google execs knew this motto will just get in the way of maximizing profits for shareholders, so they dropped it a few years ago.