Re:Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new ta...
by grugagag on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @09:22AM
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They’ve backed out of their promise to do no evil long time ago.. I have no reasons for still using chrome from time to time or at work where I prefer it over the obnoxious Edge.
Firefox user at home though…
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Re:Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new ta...
by jkaplowitz on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @09:33AM
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Formally they never removed "don't be evil" from their code of conduct, although it's now part of the last sentence rather than a standalone sentence at the beginning of the preface as it used to be, and I think it's far more often disregarded by their policymaking levels of leadership than it was in their earlier years.
https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/
Much of the media reporting got this wrong when Google made this change in 2018.
They never promised to "do no evil", and that's become increasingly evident over time.
Disclosure: I have worked for Google in the past, most recently more than 8 years ago now, but I have never been in any way part of Google's policymaking leadership ranks and am certainly not speaking for them here.