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[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google is such a bad company. People should discontinue use of all their software and at the very least stop using chrome or chromium. They’ve got the internet by the balls.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I still remember old days, when most coders used to praise google. Their services were amazing and I think one of their old principle was >"Develop good products first, think about monetisation later"

[–] [email protected] 150 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I wish google was as good at procrastinating as I am.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Their old principle was ‘don’t be evil’. The fact they no longer say that tells you everything

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Somewhere, sometime, there was a meeting at Google where they decided that value would be dropped.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google sucks for sure, but I keep seeing this claim that they've removed "don't be evil" from their code of conduct.

It's still there, it's just no longer the main motto and has been moved from the preface to the conclusion.

You can read it yourself; "don't be evil" is literally in the last sentence verbatim, lol: https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I stand corrected!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

When Gmail debuted and it was invited only 😊

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's before they went public