Re:Apple blocking ads that follow users around web is 'sabot...
by abritinthebay on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @02:07PM
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Google hasn't been "Do No Evil" since Ads became their primary revenue. People have been saying they've been suspicious and not super trustworthy before Android came out.
The writing on the wall has been there for a long time. They just had a very large stockpile of goodwill.
Re:Apple blocking ads that follow users around web is 'sabot...
by labster on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @02:12PM
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When were ads not Google's primary revenue source?
Re:Apple blocking ads that follow users around web is 'sabot...
by abritinthebay on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @05:14PM
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In the sense the business pivoted around it... before ~2003 Iād say. Writing was on the wall by 2001.
But it got SO MUCH worse around 2005 for some reason.
They are the ones that might currently do less than the other two, but history shows that giving one company too much power means it will be abused sooner or later. Google seemed a really, really nice company in the late nineties. When it developed, people were fascinated. When the first versions of Android came out, I was coding like a crazy, happy to own an "open phone" I could simply copy MP3s and ebooks to. And look what a monster they became. Now I do whatever I can to get rid of Google from every aspect of my life, and believe me, it's not easy at all.