Comment by da_chicken

Comment by da_chicken 10 hours ago

Yeah, I agree with you.

Between Android, Chrome, YouTube, Gmail (including mx.google.com), Docs/Drive, Meet/Chat, and Google Search, claiming that Google "isn't more trusted" is just ludicrous. People may not be happy they have to trust Alphabet. But they certainly do.

And even when they insist they're Stallman, their friends do, their family does, their coworkers do, the businesses they interact with do, the schools they send their children to do.

rightbyte an hour ago

> And even when they insist they're Stallman

Looking through the JS-code of this site I was happily surprised finding 153 lines of not minified but pretty JS. I anticipated at least some unfree code. So I guess there is a chance some user might rightfully claim this.

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djtango 10 hours ago

Like it or not, Google has wormed their way into the fabric of modern life.

Chrome and Google Search are still the gateway to the internet outside China. Android has over 75% market share of all mobile(!). YouTube is somewhat uniquely the video internet with Instagram and Tiktok not really occupying the same mindshare for "search" and long form.

People can say they don't "trust" Google but the fact is that if the world didn't trust Google, it never would have gotten to where it is and it would quickly unravel from here.

Sent from my Android (begrudgingly)

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lemonlearnings 9 hours ago

With search you dont fully trust Google. You trust Google to find good results most of the time them trust those results based on other factors.

But with AI you now have all trust in one place. For Google and OpenAI their AI bullshits. It will only be trusted by fools. Luckily for the corporations there is no end of fools to fool.

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