I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing.

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• anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So the author was fine with every other fucked up, privacy invading, monopolistic practice from Google, but it was a tenuous relationship with Israel that they can’t forgive?

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  • Aux@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Privacy should not exist.

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  • coffeeismydrug@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i mean monopolistic and privacy invading versus associating with something that is slaughtering women and children in their own land, it’s not the same in my opinion.

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  • diffusive@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As much I care about privacy and free market, I still consider war or genocide to be worse. Call me crazy 🤷‍♂️

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Listen pal, I was fine with invading Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark and the Netherlands, but I draw the line at France!

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• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I degoogled for the first time two days ago aaaaand, it’s actually way easier than I expected and actually, dare I say… fun?

  Fun in that I have new apps to try, all over the place. I spent that whole evening combing f-droid for everything I need and got it all sorted out.

  SMS? Backed up Contacts? Backed up Photos? Syncthing’d Passwords? I’m a card carrying Keepass user. Music? Pulled down my streaming service from Aurora and it just works. Email? Thunderbird’d’d Cloud? Mini PC’d and NFS’d Google? Gone and not missed.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Email? Thunderbird’d’d Thunderbird is only a mail client. Don’t forget to actually move from gmail if you want to degoogle.

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    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I got that disroot joint, homie. My googs is only temporary while I slowly migrate the sites I have it registered to.

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• disconnectikacio@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google is evil

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  • 2910000@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember getting a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach when Google removed “Don’t be evil” from their Code of Conduct

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    • ragas@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why else would you need to remove that phrase unless you wanted to do something bad?

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• MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For some reason I don’t find her sudden change of heart convincing. & I am happy to know that the rest of you feel the same.

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• Letsdothisok@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Googlecide?

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• rolling@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  She is still working there. Yeah, sure, maybe she is taking a risk now that her name is out there publicly criticizing, but this article is just for her to feel good about herself. “But look guys, I think Google sucks too, I am not bad like them. I just help them accomplish their goals and get paid for it 🙃”

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  • primemagnus@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just pulled the levers in the gas chambers! I’m not a bad guy!!!

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    • skrlet13@feddit.cl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I understand your point, but that was insensitive

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    • CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As if working at Google is remotely close to participating in the fucking Holocaust.

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  • graff@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If all the people who disagreed left, there would be no chance of opposition

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    • rolling@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The opposition comes from us, the consumers who refuse to use Google products.

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    • easily3667@lemmus.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can’t change things from the inside. A level 3 software developer isn’t changing what google is doing.

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    She could have said nothing and kept quiet like the thousands of other workers at Google, this could not only get her fired but maybe even blacklisted in the industry, that’s far more than you’ve ever done or will ever do to bring attention to this issue, so how about you keep that cynicism in check.

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    • rolling@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ohh nooo. Poor her with all the stock options she got while working there from basically their startup days. Whatever this poor damsel will do with 20+ years of experience working in one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

      I might not have the platform to bring attention to this issue, but hey, at least I don’t actively help them, do their work and then reap the benefits of all the evil they do anyways.

      Unlike her, my issues with Google does not end with the Israel issue. Google is evil regardless if this single issue.

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    • easily3667@lemmus.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well she’s been working their since 2005. So she doesn’t need the job. Or money. Or anything. She’s just there.

      Maybe you’re the one who should keep the cynicism in check if you think people who have every they could ever have wanted and have benefited on the evil deeds of their employer to the tune of millions and millions of dollars wouldn’t speak out.

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    • primemagnus@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      100% will get her fired. 100%. Not now as it’s too connectable to the post she made, but in 6 months, they’ll find a reason to can her that can’t be traced to this.

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• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do they feel heartbreak over the millions of dollars in compensation and stock options they’ve collected in those decades? Easy to write piece like this and go back to your comfortable lifestyle and just feel the fuzzy feeling of speaking out about a bad guy.

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  • CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nothing is enough for guys that comment on the internet. Maybe they should post comments on lemmy. That’ll show the world.

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  • FlyingSpaceCow@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m still glad they wrote the piece.

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• azha@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ive been using Vivaldi for over 3 years and never been happier plus I don’t have any google account and degoogled my devices.

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  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For me? It’s Qwant and <INSERT FIREFOX FORK>.

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Vivaldi is closed-source, and it still uses Google’s engine. Good for you for moving away from Google, but you have much better options available to you: FireDragon, Zen, and the rest of the Mozilla browsers.

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• const_void@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you still use Chrome uninstall it now

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• Fades@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Absolute monsters, they need to be culled, removed from power and influence.

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• echinacea@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google/Alphabet’s previous CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt was best friends with Henry Kissinger.

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• vane@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Project Maven started in 2017. Stop making evil people famous and expecting something will change.

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• Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not the same google.

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  • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    always has been

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• doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The author should have quit long ago. Many employees are complicit.

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  • Pirata@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They get paid 500k a year.

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    • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I get paid 1/10th of that and I could do a lot better - and I used to - but I work for a nonprofit I care about. Greed is a hell of a drug.

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  • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    all* employees

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• nonentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  IBM : Nazi Party :: Google : IDF

  techwontsave.us/…/235_no_tech_for_apartheid_w_moh…

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• UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How about yall start to be the change you want to see in the world and go to gaza and do something

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  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That idea go any further on the something other than “get shot and dragged into a van”?

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    • UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Vandalising public spaces in your country will probably have about the same outcome

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t you think they could do more good in the USA, since they’re the ones paying for it?

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  • Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Animated GIF from Pink Floyd’s The Wall showing people walking into a meat grinder

    I don’t think providing more meat for the grinder will suddenly make anyone change their minds on the subject.

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    • UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fighting on the inrernet has a negligible impact. The alternative is going to gaza.

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    • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If they (the rich) dont grind your meat, they can’t have any pudding. How can they have any pudding if they don’t grind your meat?

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• Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t be many of us who thought the web search engine company would turn into the killbot company.

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  • Aceofspades@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got a little suspicious when they stopped using “Don’t be evil”.

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  • edg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yup, but arund the time they came out with Google Desktop I started to wonder what the future held.

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• peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  An AI arms embargo sounds great.

  How the fuck are you going to implement an arms embargo on software that is literally designed and developed and run on the cloud?

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you literally develop from a cloud? Are jetpacks involved?

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    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well. I can guarantee you those Chromebooks they make devs use are not doing the processing locally.

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• einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Dont be evil” was never a promise it always had been a warning to the users.

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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Project Nimbus: wired.com/…/amazon-google-project-nimbus-israel-i…

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• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aaaaand she’s fired.

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    After 20y of equity I think she’ll be fine.

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  • Jinx@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or worse, “accidentally” fell out of the window. Crazy times.

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