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A comment on Yelp’s Six-Year Conflict with Google. Parent comment

Re:Yelp’s Six-Year Conflict with Google by wbillingsley on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @10:59PM (#14699716)
Which seems foolish. Microsoft just dictated the format your save file was in. Google ensures that by default most users never have their own data to load into another product at all. You seem to trust them because they have their hands around your throat rather than just your wrist.
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Re:Yelp’s Six-Year Conflict with Google by sangnoir on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @04:54AM (#14700847)
> Which seems foolish

I'm yet to see any malicious actions by Google that comes close to the Halloween Documents or the licensing shenanigans. I don't know if you're looking back with rose-tinted glasses, but at it's peak, Microsoft was capital-E Evil (or ruthless if you're against moralizing): comparing Microsoft then to Google today seems foolish to me.

Edit: I naively think Google works with the principle that "What's good for the web is good for Google" and works to improve the web (and to my benefit). 90's Microsoft principle was "What's good for Microsoft is good for Microsoft. Destroy anyone who tries to mess with that"

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Re:Yelp’s Six-Year Conflict with Google by edoceo on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @12:00AM (#14699895)
Google Takeout let's you grab your data from their systems, easy. Import is another story
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