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Re:The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017) by stopads on Sunday November 24, 2019 @09:46AM (#21620696)
Back in 2015-7 or so yes, you'd be immediately dogpiled on here and reddit and most other sites for daring to criticize Google. I was trying to warn people about them and was always banned or downvoted to some shadowban realm immediately.

Google isn't the actual problem though, advertising is. The backlash needs to be primarily about ads, not the companies that just lie repeatedly in order to bend all tech infrastructure towards the needs of advertisers.

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Re:The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017) by dang on Sunday November 24, 2019 @03:28PM (#21623119)
We've never banned people for "daring to criticize $bigco". That's half of HN. If we banned you, it was likely because there was something else abusive about your posts.
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Re:The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017) by BlueTemplar on Sunday November 24, 2019 @05:30PM (#21623923)
Ads are the worst, but aren't the only issue. Apple and (older?) Microsoft are problematic too without being advertising businesses.
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