Great technology should improve life, not distract from it

Re:Great technology should improve life, not distract from it by balls187 on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @04:54PM (#17024978)

Google is a corporation; why does it care about the well being of it's users?

Google is putting in place this claptrap, but yet hasn't done anything to curb it's illegal advertising to children.

I'm sorry, I don't trust google to have my well being in it's best interest. There must be some hidden angle.

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Re:Great technology should improve life, not distract from it by spuz on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @05:03PM (#17025075)

There is another angle - healthier user's are more productive and spend more of their money on google's and its advertiser's products. Why would they NOT care about the well being of their users?

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Re:Great technology should improve life, not distract from it by balls187 on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @07:20PM (#17026219)

That feels like the public line. I understand google isn't the illuminati looking to dominate the world from behind the scenes, but I am highly skeptical about their motives behind this.

In the US, other than YouTube, google has very little in the way of dopamine as a service, like Facebook, Twitter, Snap, IG, etc. This feels like an attempt to get in on the technology addiction by feigning to be anti-addiction.

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