Comment by latexr

> make shit up on HN and be the top comment as long as it's to bash Google.

I don’t think that’s fair. Same would’ve happened if it were Microsoft, or Apple, or Amazon. By now we’re all used to (and tired) of these tech giants lying to us and being generally shitty. Additionally, for decades we haven’t been able to trust reports from big companies which say “everything is fine, really” when they publish it themselves, about themselves, contradicting the general wisdom of something bad they’ve been doing. Put those together and you have the perfect combination; we’re primed to believe they’re trying to deceive us again, because that’s what happens most of the time. It has nothing to do with it being Google, they just happened to be the target this time.