Comment by Lowtiercomputer on 11/07/2019 at 23:24 UTC

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Why do you hate Google? I mean strongly dislike, sure, but hate is pretty strong.

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Comment by joesii at 15/07/2019 at 00:49 UTC*

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I hate how

• they're making a lot of things slower for non-Chrome browsers

• They completely ruined Youtube's inbox and notification system in multiple major ways

• They are recording and making use-of and selling a whole lot of user data, and they bake-in a lot of these "spyware" components into Android (and maybe Chromebook?) devices, such that you can't even remove them (at least without rooting and replacing components in one difficult to perform mess and hassle)

• They changed reverse image search to be a crappy shell of what it used to be.

• Related to the previous point, I think they did related modifications to regular image search and/or regular text search. I suppose that for both of these past two points some of that may be for privacy reasons though, which I guess is in theory a good thing (although I suspect that there's money behind it, such as "pay us to hide your users' public profile pages)

I dislike how:

• They fired James Damore for saying some very relevant, very civil, very non-hateful comments regarding the situation at Google/tech-sector and women/different-genders.

• https://stallman.org/google.html[1]; Some of which I've either already mentioned, possibly don't care about much (the proprietary code part, which Stallman is a huge zealot about), or which I maybe hate, such as closing accounts of Pixel resellers.

1: https://stallman.org/google.html

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Comment by [deleted] at 12/07/2019 at 02:44 UTC

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Oh where do i begin, They have a filter bubble which means you get only the information you wanna see and not what you should see, They tweak the search results to have a left-wing bias (arguable, do your own research), Google employees wanted to protest a google float at a pride parade, google threatened anyone who did so with termination, They track every part of your online and real life, train their Ai, and then sell the data to advertisers to make more relavant advertising, A google employee got fired for making a little Office Document explaining that the gender gap in tech is just bc women arent interested in it, and much much more.