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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by stingrae on Sunday August 23, 2020 @12:43PM (#24253156)
I used to work there a couple years ago and honestly this seems a bit silly. People are at Google are pretty product focused.

Sure you can go and use the items on this list. But I don't think they will be better. Google has spent a lot of time and money to make a set of best in industry tools and people use them as a result.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by zwkrt on Sunday August 23, 2020 @12:51PM (#24253209)
“People at google are pretty product focused”

Oh so they just don’t think about it at all. To be product focused is just to do what your boss tells you to do. Sometimes the easiest way to go about things is just to fully embody one’s role as a cog with no agency.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by stingrae on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:15PM (#24254945)
no. everyone is trying to do the right thing for the users and do what it takes to make the best experiences.
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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by fsflover on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:32PM (#24255059)
Are tracking and ad targeting based on it (i.e. manipulation) also considered “the right thing for users”?
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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by cbolton on Monday August 24, 2020 @03:29PM (#24264465)
It's how they fund the products, and their users choose to use them knowing that they are being tracked to be shown ads. So yes.
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