News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser. Parent comment

Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by runeks on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:20AM (#14154166)
To be fair, relying on product teams to shut themselves down, in case they've hit a dead-end, probably wouldn't work.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by TillE on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:27AM (#14155724)
Actually, why not? It's not like the employees get fired. You generally know when you're working on a crappy product.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by atsaloli on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:50AM (#14155816)
Google Reader was a fantastically useful product for me. Not "crappy" at all.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by toyg on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:21AM (#14156355)
That's the point parent is making: the Reader team probably wouldn't have opted for shutting down, and they would have been right.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser by phasmantistes on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:54PM (#14160236)
The reader team didn't exist (and hadn't for years) at the time the decision was made to shut it down.
[ Parent | on HN ]