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Re:Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against... by sseth on Thursday September 27, 2018 @03:51PM (#18087962)
You may want to check this list and decide for yourself what it was about : https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/22/5135626/scroogled-micros...

I should add that i have not seen Google itself run such attack ads.

What I have always found strange is that the companies that seem to attack google on privacy are not so hot themselves. Microsoft's rifling through hotmail emails to catch a leaker, and Apple's handing over of iCloud data for Chinese users are examples of things Google has never done.

Microsoft : https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/03/28/microsof...

Apple : https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587304/apple-icloud-chi...

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Re:Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against... by chrisco255 on Saturday September 29, 2018 @05:21AM (#18099472)
Those are 6 year old editorials, in other words, opinion articles. Microsoft has every right to run ad campaigns however they like. Apple attacked PC with it's "I'm a Mac, I'm hip and cool and PCs are bloated, etc." ads in the 00s. They were effective, I'm not convinced the Scroogled campaign was effective at all. Ad campaigns resemble political ads because political ads are ad campaigns. They're all different flavors of the same damn trade.
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