On the one hand: Good. Google is a monopoly and they suck, too.
On the other, I don’t trust the trump administration to do anything correctly. They’ll probably try to give google to Musk or something.
That’d be something though… Can you imagine watching one of the largest companies in the world being run into the ground in under two years? I’d pay to watch that
Isn’t it frustrating to know the difference between right and wrong, then seeing wrong get punished, but instead of right prevailing, it is instead just more wrong?
- G - Google
- A - Apple
- F - Facebook
- A - Amazon
- M - Microsoft
5 companies, each own a portion of the internet like it’s the stock market.
Y’all are just now finding that out that corpo is a tool of ownership for the means of production?!?
Uh oh, sounds like someone didn’t go up Drumps ass far enough.
Ah well, I’ll take the wins where I can get them lol
Obscenely large donation incoming in 5… 4…
They don’t even need to donate.
He’s openly selling access to the while house through his crypto scheme. They’re not even pretending to run it through a campaign.
Don’t worry, cheque’s in the mail.
I wonder what happens to Google without the advertising monopoly. They kill off everything else they build so realistically they are just an ad company at this point which offers a declining search engine. While they won’t be dethroned anytime soon in search, they keep making it worse so I have to imagine it won’t be gaining users. If they did break it out, maybe that will improve search.
Google itself started in 1998, and launched their ad stuff in 2000. They’ve essentially always been an advertising company.
Sweet, sweet analytical data…
Once upon a time they were the “good ads”. They had an unobtrusive but instantly recognisable ad-format that was reasonably tolerable and text-only. It was once they started showing sponsored search results that it became apparent they were willing to be subversive to get clicks.
Their whole image was built around user trust and the moment they had everyone hooked they 180ed.
I wonder what will happen to Firefox.
I’m hoping they can figure out how to operate leaner and without Google money. People get mad about them but they’re the best alternative we have and they do more good than any bad policy. At worst keep supporting Firefox while using a mild fork like Waterfox since the core of development is with Mozilla
They probably shouldn’t base out of the US and everything Proton does as a business should have been Mozilla if they actually had better long term vision
Mozilla stubbornly refuses to allow people to donate to Firefox specifically (as opposed to Firefox and their other random projects they pull out of the hat every other quarter or so to be used for any of them at their discretion). I would have set up a monthly donation to Firefox long ago if only they allowed donations just to Firefox. I have read many others complain about the same issue over the years.
The organization needs to dump it’s management and go back to it’s roots. Stop being shitty and be the desktop people want.
Mozilla is staffed by parasites who are just taking Google’s money to not do shit.
Signal is in similar position.
Just appeasing privacy and non bootlicker types who are a very small minority that constantly crying on fedi about it 🤡
