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I continue to be astonished at the level of shame and denial at Google around the company's business model. It's as if I kept arguing that Pinboard has nothing to do with saving bookmarks, and I personally would never sully myself by saving a bookmark
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Too few people understand the business model. It's not "selling your data", it's selling access to user attention based on private data that is jealously guarded. This allows Googlers (and people at Facebook) to imagine themselves as champions of user privacy while eradicating it
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Life is too short and precious to work at these companies, even if you are part of the quiet resistance within or whatever. What you do for a living is shameful.
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I don't think it's either a low blow or inappropriate to underline the tension between the Chrome team's goals and the core business of the parent company that signs their paychecks. The people working on court mandated anti-smoking initiatives at Philip Morris are also sincere
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I think it is shameful to work at Google. Others disagree.
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Honest question: where does Google fall in your stack-ranking of evil? Compare, say, Lockheed, NSO Group, SAC Capital, the NSA, Apple, Mozilla Foundation, and Google.
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I have an evil heap, not an evil stack. I think it is certainly better to work at Google than at Lockheed. My feelings about the NSA are mixed. I don't think of Google as an evil company, but as one that is creating a powerful infrastructure for evil. I prefer to stay off motives
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