Why, because they show you ads for tracked interests? Something they're quite upfront about, and allow you to opt-out of if you'd like.
Is that so "evil" that it somehow outweighs the hundreds of open-source projects they've released? Or the extremely useful free-services they provide like Maps and Search? The thousands of jobs they've created in our industry? The new protocols they've released for free to the IETF? The security bugs they've helped uncover?
Google does an immense amount of good for society. I don't understand how people can so easily lose sight of that.
Actually, I don't have a large problem with them showing ads and trying to know enough about me to do so properly. I'd appreciate it if you didn't attack me over your mistaken ideas regarding my thoughts.
- They release good versions of existing products, let people use it for free or cheap, and then (when all the other companies making said product type give up because they can't compete), they discard the product and leave people without any version of it.
- They forced a horrible social platform on everyone. I don't have a problem with them creating the platform; experimentation and variety are good. I do, however, have a problem with them forcing people to use it in order to use other products they own.
- There's other items in my list of reasons to think Google is out for it's own benefit, and the rest of us can slowly die as long as they make money.
Is that so "evil" that it somehow outweighs the hundreds of open-source projects they've released? Or the extremely useful free-services they provide like Maps and Search? The thousands of jobs they've created in our industry? The new protocols they've released for free to the IETF? The security bugs they've helped uncover?
Google does an immense amount of good for society. I don't understand how people can so easily lose sight of that.