Why you should not use Google Cloud

Re:Why you should not use Google Cloud by bradgessler on Saturday June 30, 2018 @09:55PM (#17433673)

Even for small businesses their sales is pretty bad. I once got a package in the mail from them with a URL containing a tracking code printed on it to contact them that was so obviously Google being Google and treating people as part of a funnel. There was no phone number to be found and nothing personalized.

The other funny thing is the package had a neoprene sleeve for a Chromebook. Eventually a sales person reached out via email assuming I owned a Chromebook and acted like I owed them a phone call because they gave me a neoprene sleeve I couldn’t use.

The entire package ended up going in the trash, which was an unfortunate waste of unrecyclable materials.

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Re:Why you should not use Google Cloud by gunzel on Sunday July 01, 2018 @01:09AM (#17434196)

If you filled in a form at the link provided from one of the bits of paper in the box they would have sent you a Chromebook for the sleeve. I'e got one here gathering dust. My boss threw away the same package but I was curious and looked through it carefully.

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Re:Why you should not use Google Cloud by justinclift on Sunday July 01, 2018 @08:30AM (#17435336)

Sounds like it functions as some kind of filter, whether intentional or not. ;)

"People who will look through every bit of advertising crap company x sends", vs those who don't.

Something, somewhere is probably making stats on that. ;)

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Re:Why you should not use Google Cloud by gnurag on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:30AM (#17456854)

I found it interesting that you wrote "Something, somewhere", and not "Someone, somewhere"

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Re:Why you should not use Google Cloud by justinclift on Thursday July 05, 2018 @06:33PM (#17467438)

Yeah, that was on purpose. It's no longer obviously just humans potentially doing this. ;)

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