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Re:Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is n... by syvanen on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @04:16AM (#42507827)
It’s so weird to observe how Alphabet doesn’t seem to even try to keep its parts separated.

Amazon at least tries keeps its companies separated from each other. AWS account teams doesn’t know what Amazon teams do and vice versa.

While Google Cloud account team constantly gets involved with Workspaces, Ads and Google Play related stuff.

If I remember right just few years ago Google was told to stop giving cheaper prices on Google Cloud based on customers Ads and Google Play revenue.

Re:Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is n... by jsnell on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @07:16AM (#42508443)
> While Google Cloud account team constantly gets involved with Workspaces, Ads and Google Play related stuff.

Not sure what you mean. Do you have a couple of concrete examples of that?

> If I remember right just few years ago Google was told to stop giving cheaper prices on Google Cloud based on customers Ads and Google Play revenue.

This one you've definitely just made up.

Re:Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is n... by lobsterthief on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @09:42AM (#42508992)
I see offers (or “ads”) for Google Ads inside of the Google Cloud Platform Dashboard all the time.
Re:Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is n... by syvanen on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @10:18AM (#42509182)
> This one you've definitely just made up.

It was called "Project Hug". Based on the different sources it contained credits for all the google offerings such as Ads, Youtube and Google Cloud in exchange for keeping apps on the Google Play platform.

Different repots on this: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/google-reportedly-paid-activis... https://gizmodo.com/google-denies-its-project-hug-bribed-20-... https://www.theverge.com/23959932/epic-v-google-trial-antitr...

Re:Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is n... by jsnell on Thursday December 26, 2024 @06:30AM (#42514605)
That doesn't match your original description at all.

> If I remember right just few years ago Google was told to stop giving cheaper prices on Google Cloud based on customers Ads and Google Play revenue.

None of your links describe them giving cheaper Cloud prices based on Ads or Play revenue.

I stand by the claim that you made it up.

Re:Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is n... by jfil on Friday December 27, 2024 @09:24AM (#42522253)
>It’s so weird to observe how Alphabet doesn’t seem to even try to keep its parts separated.

"Your Honour, it's simply impossible to break up our company into separate entities. Everything is just too entangled together! Can we get a fine instead?"