Comment on Why is Google takeout so bitchy?
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
There’s no financial incentive for them to make is easy to leave Google. Takeout only exists to comply with regulations (e.g. digital markets act), and as usual, they’re doing the bare minimum to not get sued.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Or why is Google Takeout as good as it is? It’s got no business being as useful as it is in a profit-maximizing corpo. 😂 It can be way worse while still technically compliant.
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Probably because the individual engineers working on Takeout care about doing a good job, even though the higher-ups would be perfectly happy with something half-assed. I work for a major tech company and I’ve been in that same situation before, e.g. when I was working on GDPR compliance. I read the GDPR and tried hard to comply with the spirit of the law, even though it was abundantly clear everyone above me hadn’t read it and only cared about doing the bare minimum.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Most likely. Plus Takeout appeared way before Google was showing any profit maximization signs and didn’t even hold the monopoly position or does hold today.