There are quite a few humans at Google, both in HN and at twitter. Sadly all of them that I talked with seemed like people that I would not want to interact with again.
Warning: contains snark. Not all googlers are bad but I am grumpy. There's now one you despise so much as the one you loved that betrayed you and all that.
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Busily making sure it
feels even more lame to try to give them feedback? Or wondering what thriving ecosystem they can destroy next after
- destroying rss,
- participating in destroying federated messaging,
- trying to kill all independent browser engines and replace it with a nerfed on that "sadly" can't block ads
Some ideas:
Maybe they can come up with a more opaque way to shut down peoples accounts?
Or maybe a more sneaky way to befriend the Chinese government?
> It is also annoying how all google employees on HN suddenly disappear on threads that talk about the new cool unethical thing that google decided to do.
We're here and do pay attention. Plenty of Googlers write comments criticizing the company here.
Like it or not, Google is a part of the Open Internet.
Example: AMP was created to protect the free flow of information which was being silo'd into apps. Consumers of news were abandoning the open (mobile) web due to the godawful performance and advertising issues. Google saw the existential threat of everything being locked down within Facebook and Reddit. Is this preferable?
Which is sad, but expected.