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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by patd on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:28AM (#24250515)
Most of your positives are more than 10 years old. In the meantime they've remove the "Don't be evil" motto, their Android/Chromebook support is very short lived, they've killed countless services people relied on, ...

I don't think Google is evil like Microsoft was in the 90s but I don't blindly trust them as I might have done in the past.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by Crash0v3rid3 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:57AM (#24250630)
It's really sad how much this misinformation gets spread...

Don't be evil is literally the last line of their code of conduct: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by volongoto on Sunday August 23, 2020 @05:25AM (#24250718)
Yes, but it is no longer their "motto" (the guiding principle for the company). So, it appearing in the CoC does not mean that it's the guiding principle.

But I think you are raising a good point. Why is this piece of "misinformation" being spread so much? What do you think? I think it is because it corresponds to people's experience with Google: "an entity once liked by the users and did good deeds has quit doing those." So, it may be "misinformation" as you put it, but I don't think it bears no value.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by Crash0v3rid3 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @05:37AM (#24250765)
No longer their motto? Can you please provide a source?

"Why is this piece of "misinformation" being spread so much? What do you think?"

Because of multiple articles spreading this misinformation a few years back, for example:

"Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct" - https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...

Then the article literally mentions at the end that it's still in the code of conduct...terrible reporting from multiple outlets.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by volongoto on Sunday August 23, 2020 @05:45AM (#24250792)
What sort of a source do you need? Is Google's current slogan/motto still "Don't be evil"?
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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by Crash0v3rid3 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @05:49AM (#24250806)
You said in your last comment: "Yes, but it is no longer their "motto" (the guiding principle for the company)."

Where exactly did you read that?

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by saalweachter on Sunday August 23, 2020 @12:27PM (#24253010)
What is their current motto, out of curiosity?
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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by mav3rick on Sunday August 23, 2020 @08:08AM (#24251316)
Chromebooks have 6.5 years of updates. How is that short lived ?
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