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Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity as Critics Slam It as Dangerous (techreport.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ruffsl to c/programming
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Attacks and doxing make me personally MORE likely to support stronger safety features in chromium, as such acts increase my suspicion that there is significant intimidation from criminals who are afraid this feature will disrupt their illegal and/or unethical businesses, and I don't give in to criminals or bullies

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"These attacks make me MORE likely to keep kicking puppies, as I don't give in to intimidation from criminals and bullies that want healthy puppies for their nefarious ends."

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[–] [email protected] 198 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They’re literally burning bridges after crossing them huh. Web scraping is illegal? Their fucking search engine was powered by a web scraper.

WEI is plain anti-competition to me now. Most, if not all, of their stated reasons are now just facade to me.

Fuck Google. I know this isn’t constructive or helpful, but fuck em.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google gained control of the web by populating the world with Chrome/Chromium and wants to strong arm the web as a whole through it. Climbing the ladder and pulling it up from underneath them, with their fisted approach to Manifest V3 the beginning salvo.

For Google it's just another day in the office.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Google is the new Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The standard “but it’s different when we do it” principle. It’s a powerful tool.

[–] YonatanAvhar 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The reality distortion fields are strong around those Google statements

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I can’t even see Google from here (reality)