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1071 points namukang | 1 comments | 11 Apr 25 20:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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AndyKelley ◴[14 Apr 25 05:55 UTC] No.43678450[source]▶
> I really was just a fuckin cog in a mega corp.

Yes, you were. Next time, please choose a company that contributes to society rather than shoving ads in everyone's faces.

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knorker ◴[14 Apr 25 07:17 UTC] No.43678854[source]▶
Ironically you're statistically very likely to be writing this comment in a browser based on chrome.

And Chrome really helped save us from an Internet "embraced and extended" by Microsoft. We were heading for Microsoft succeeding in their (not first) attempt at owning the Internet.

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Freak_NL ◴[14 Apr 25 08:07 UTC] No.43679120[source]▶
Someone extremely critical of Google is likely to not just use Firefox? That doesn't sound statistically likely.
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1. knorker ◴[14 Apr 25 09:55 UTC] No.43679652[source]▶
Well, two points to that: 1) If this person doesn't use Google products, then they are going out of their way to avoid Google. They are then very aware that their values are overruling technical benefits. 2) Surely if they are this invested in Firefox then they know who's been funding Firefox for years?

I'm typing this from within Firefox, which I switched to over the adblocking changes. But I'd say that claiming Google has contributed nothing to society is silly.

There's also the AI stuff with transformers, running the deepmind work with alphafold, alphago, alphazero. And GSOC.

And the papers on bigtable, spanner, mapreduce, etc… bootstrapping modern big data, spawning many opensource copycats.

And Android? I used a linux based Nokia N900 before Android, but clearly the world preferred Android.

Hell, Google Search itself was once a paradigm shifting improvement over alternatives.