Google started out with a “don’t be evil” motto when it launched its first product, Google Search. Today, Google is a different company. It has created numerous products and abandoned a lot.

  • namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    The only solution is to break them up. There is no other way - Google will keep perverting and manipulating social trends as long as they’re allowed to hold onto their position.

    The web browser is the most important piece of software in the world. It should not be under the control of a single company - especially when that company is a massive monopolist with extreme conflicts of interest.

    The web (and the entire internet) was built on standards. It is time to go back to multiple parties working together on standards. Not a single, monopolistic implementation.

    (Google isn’t the only company that needs to be broken up by the way, but they’re definitely the most urgent.)