Google "Do No Evil" meta thread

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The motto was first suggested either by Google employee Paul Buchheit at a meeting about corporate values that took place in early 2000[7] or in 2001[8] or, according to another account, by Google Engineer Amit Patel in 1999.[9] Buchheit, the creator of Gmail, said he "wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out", adding that the slogan was "also a bit of a jab at a lot of the other companies, especially our competitors, who at the time, in our opinion, were kind of exploiting the users to some extent".[7]
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In their 2004 founders' letter[14] prior to their initial public offering, Larry Page and Sergey Brin argued that their "Don't be evil" culture prohibited conflicts of interest, and required objectivity and an absence of bias:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil#History

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[Parliament 14157]

Google to Disable Ad-Blocking in non-enterprise Chrome Installations
Bahaha.  Welcome back, Firefox.

No way they do that.

[SDG 3319]

I know it’s unpopular around here, but when i switched to Apple (safari) all my web browsing issues, including pop ups, went away.

That being said; I recently changed all my search engines to DuckDuckGo so the goog starship cant follow me...  

[TwiceHorn 31365]

21 hours ago, Parliament said:

On 5/31/2019 at 7:52 AM, TwiceHorn said:

Google to Disable Ad-Blocking in non-enterprise Chrome Installations
Bahaha.  Welcome back, Firefox.

No way they do that.

I think they're going to allow some limited ad-blocking that probably more resembles ad-targeting.  But it appears that the days of wholesale, user-controlled ABP etc. are over with Chrome. 

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

Startpage.com is another search engine to try.  Google search results but without transmitting your info to them.

I still personally find Google Maps results the best versus all the online mapping alternatives, especially within things like the "arrive by" feature. And I won't lie, is handy to have the home address all filled out.

 

[mycox 582]

21 hours ago, SDG said:

I know it’s unpopular around here, but when i switched to Apple (safari) all my web browsing issues, including pop ups, went away.

That being said; I recently changed all my search engines to DuckDuckGo so the goog starship cant follow me...  

I just started using Brave for my browser. It's quick and has a built in ad-blocker that works well.

[tucker 238]

Nothing here yet?

 

 

[Auto Driller 2504]

Google probably should be broken up. Same with Facebook. The problem is that our government has no idea how these tech companies work, let alone how they could be regulated in order to limit their power.

[Neonmoon 38127]

I’m in the google matrix. I don’t want to leave the google matrix. I took the blue pill. 

[52-80 19128]

On 6/1/2019 at 5:00 AM, SDG said:

I know it’s unpopular around here, but when i switched to Apple (safari) all my web browsing issues, including pop ups, went away.

That being said; I recently changed all my search engines to DuckDuckGo so the goog starship cant follow me...  

Nothing u popular.  MacOS is superb and safari has been very good since they allowed extension (for things like AdBlock).  The only negative against them is not being multiplatform, so I can't sync with Android phone or PCs