On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 18:28:00 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
Well, it's Google's main domain, and they've kinda already
settled into a pattern of making decisions more on self-serving
grounds than for the good of the product/users. "Don't be evil"
doesn't exactly set a very high bar.
I don't know, I have more trouble with Safari and Edge than
Chrome and Firefox.
Google's main domain is advertising, same with Facebook. Software
is just a way to keep competition away and collecting information
about users.
The Internet is getting very 1984ish, but this goes way beyond
Google, which I find to be better than average. Have you noticed
how you receive advertising all over the Internet for the same
product you looked at a few days before in a webshop and how
Facebook and Linked In lists suggestions based on people you have
only had peripheral interaction with? Extremely annoying. It
makes me rank those companies as shady.
At some point there will be a resistance movement, forking one of
the main browsers and building in collaborative blacklisting etc.
Unfortunately, non-tech people are quite oblivious to what is
going on. Maybe the new collaborative website annotation
standards will turn into something. Firefox could take a lead
there.
