Archived Why have Google and Chrome become evil, and what is the similar alternative at this point? (AskVoat)
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Archived Why have Google and Chrome become evil, and what is the similar alternative at this point? (AskVoat)
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[–] G4 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
How have they become evil? Pretty much from the beginning, their business model is built on adsense.
[–] rwbj 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I don't think datamining itself is inherently unethical. The reason I stopped using Google stuff is when they started to try to use coercion to increase their bottom line. So for instance they removed all YouTube downloaders from their plugin store and then made it absolutely impossible to install third party plugins from anywhere except said store. That's just lame and abusive.
[–] RedditDead2005-2015 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Well, I have to admit I get some free, useful things from Google in exchange for their data collection: GMail, Google Music, Google storage, Google Maps, and searches which allow me to get any shows and movies that I want. I can't say the same for Bing or Yahoo! Search. Google collects my data and I don't like it, but I am using them too.