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Re:Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at lan... by StilesCrisis on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @08:23PM (#46969569)
To be clear, I have no beef with Google the company and wouldn't mind working there again if it weren't in the ads division. After two years I transferred to the Chrome org and greatly enjoyed the work there. I was proud to develop something that is used the world over, it's open source, and I got to optimize tight code and tune for performance. (Yes, Chrome is fast, I don't understand the haters!) If I had just quit Google immediately, this wouldn't have happened and I would've missed out on a great experience.
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Re:Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at lan... by embedding-shape on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @04:41AM (#46972917)
> To be clear, I have no beef with Google the company and wouldn't mind working there again if it weren't in the ads division.

Yeah, completely missing the point then.

But anyways, glad you got to optimize tight code, tune for performance and liked the experience. Hope you have a nice day and take care.

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Re:Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at lan... by StilesCrisis on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @08:20AM (#46974616)
Did you think I would have applied there, taken a job, worked for three weeks, and then realized I'm morally opposed to the concept of working at Google entirely?
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Re:Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at lan... by embedding-shape on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @09:18AM (#46975220)
I don't know what to think anymore, seemingly all everyone else thinks about is money, I guess that's ok. Take care, hope you have a nice day regardless.
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Re:Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at lan... by StilesCrisis on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @04:19PM (#46981164)
The great thing about open source is that you can fork it for free. If you don't like the direction Chrome is evolving, you can make a better one tomorrow.
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