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Author Topic: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Trust-o-nomics Edition  (Read 3428762 times)

miauw62

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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: FLAC That Edition
« Reply #28935 on: October 29, 2013, 03:17:57 pm »

Data-mining and "lel u has to uuse social netwrks for utuub!!"
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: FLAC That Edition
« Reply #28936 on: October 29, 2013, 03:21:33 pm »

Ingenious is the word you were looking for, Naxzy.

And can someone explain how Google has gotten evil?

Last I heard their business model is "Be awesome so people keep using our stuff, sell ad-space on our stuff, profit". Being evil would destroy that because of the first part...

Is it the data-mining? It's the data-mining, isn't it?
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"I can't believe GMail is mining through my email to sell me ads"

"Yeah, it's such a bother when a company you willingly give data to decides to use it to give you ads that you might find useful for once."

Data-mining and "lel u has to uuse social netwrks for utuub!!"
I simply press the [X] or Cancel button whenever Youtube asks me to make a Google+ page. I'd actually be fine with taking a page and letting it languish, but I don't know which of the options (Youtube name across whole of google, Separate Youtube/Google, and a third option I can't remember (Google name on Youtube?)) I'd like. I like having my email-named account across all of Google except for Youtube, where I have just my Youtube name. None of the options seem to give me that.

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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: FLAC That Edition
« Reply #28937 on: October 29, 2013, 03:22:16 pm »

Data-mining and "lel u has to uuse social netwrks for utuub!!"

Well, no, not really. I only use Gmail (and YT, duh) and G+ doesn't bother me to sign up at all.
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« Reply #28938 on: October 29, 2013, 03:25:47 pm »

It's lying to the public about what they're doing and working with the government to subvert the foundation of democracy and their frankly abusive behaviour on places like youtube against small content creators in service to the record labels, where original creations have adds plastered on them to pay the executives of unrelated companies because google values their relationship.

People dislike that Google has decided it has a mandate to control the behaviour of it's users on a large scale - it's attempts to force them to use google+, to force them to use their real name, the limitations it's imposed and the walled gardens it has built, all are based around reducing the control users have over their lives so Google can make more money over them - they are not just building the best product, but they are insuring that once you use anything they make you face ever increasing pressure to let them control everything, whether you want to or not, or risk losing the things you've accomplished through them in the past.

It's also gone from taking great care of it's employees and expanding in a way that getting bought by google could conceivably be a good thing for your company to a much more traditional and predatory practice, where it buys up competitors just to shut them down and treats those who work for it (except in a few areas) much worse than it used to, with more of the benefits of a once egalitarian company going to upper management, shareholders, and "corporate partners".

It's also actively taken stances against the open source movement, while mining everything they've created to enforce their own control over the marketplace. They've adopted many of Microsofts tactics, where they ship there own services together and block out competitors, except WORSE than microsoft ever did - they threatened to completely discontinue Android for Motorola phones if Motorola considered packaging in a competing location service not sold by Google.

Google also has a reputation for skirting laws in regards to ads, and doing it knowingly, especially in regards to adds for illegal medications, scams, and malware. They've lost almost half a billion in lawsuits over this issue alone, but keep doing it because it makes them far more money. But it's hard to call that sort of justification not evil.

These are just some of the reasons people have turned against Google. But essentially, they have decided that they are the new Microsoft, and the ones in control, and that they will do anything to insure things stay that way.

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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: FLAC That Edition
« Reply #28939 on: October 29, 2013, 03:36:05 pm »

Add how they abruptly switched sides on the issue of internet censorship when Google Fiber got going.
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« Reply #28940 on: October 29, 2013, 03:39:30 pm »

they threatened to completely discontinue Android for Motorola phones if Motorola considered packaging in a competing location service not sold by Google.

I see no problem with this. Motorola ships Android phones with a customized OS, Motorola should be the entity that maintains said OS.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: FLAC That Edition
« Reply #28941 on: October 29, 2013, 04:32:26 pm »

Ok, I admit it. I just want Half Life 3.
As do we all.

I don't.
* miauw62 burns Naxza at the stake
Neither do I.
And I never played any Half Life, nor portal 2 (I do have portal 1 and finished it twice though), nor TF2 (ok that's a lie I played it. For 30 minutes.)
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« Reply #28942 on: October 29, 2013, 04:34:58 pm »

Then rejoice, because Source Engine 2 is heavily in development.

I do have some dark feelings about that though. If I recall correctly there's a game coming out for one of the next-gen consoles that is allegedly running on Source 2, but in my opinion it did not seem all that impressive. The game involved mechs or something and reminded me of Borderlands crossed with Call of Duty and Halo 3. Was that just a rumour?

Titanfall is running on Source 1 still.

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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: FLAC That Edition
« Reply #28943 on: October 30, 2013, 12:07:48 am »

Ingenious is the word you were looking for, Naxzy.

Oh. Oh dear.

This is the part where I turn in my English hat, isn't it? I am ashamed to have made such a blunder.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: FLAC That Edition
« Reply #28944 on: October 30, 2013, 09:30:47 am »

As much as you guys are pointing out bad things about google, you also need to remember that there are far worse things than them. There is still the isps that sit on their arse and don't even try to make any better service because theres no one to fight against for miles (and then act like a kid who had something stolen from him if google adds a single city), among other things.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: FLAC That Edition
« Reply #28945 on: October 30, 2013, 09:51:40 am »

Ingenious is the word you were looking for, Naxzy.

Oh. Oh dear.

This is the part where I turn in my English hat, isn't it? I am ashamed to have made such a blunder.

Your english hat is MINE now! ALL MINE! MUHWAHWAHWA
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: FLAC That Edition
« Reply #28946 on: October 30, 2013, 10:54:11 am »

Ingenious is the word you were looking for, Naxzy.

Oh. Oh dear.

This is the part where I turn in my English hat, isn't it? I am ashamed to have made such a blunder.

Your english hat is MINE now! ALL MINE! MUHWAHWAHWA

Dear, I am nonplussed to say that your maniacal laughter is under no circumstances to be considered British enough for even a native-born aide of the Viceroy of India.

* LordSlowpoke nabs the English hat with an utmost level of swiftness and secrecy.
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« Reply #28947 on: October 30, 2013, 10:59:50 am »

* Aklyon politely asks for the english hat.
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« Reply #28948 on: October 30, 2013, 11:26:22 am »

* Descan wears his Stetson proudly!

(that's the Mounties hat if you were wondering)

* Descan is torn between his Stetson and Scottish beret. D:
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« Reply #28949 on: October 30, 2013, 12:02:12 pm »

* Descan wears his Stetson proudly!

(that's the Mounties hat if you were wondering)

* Descan is torn between his Stetson and Scottish beret. D:

Wear both! At the same time!

I, meanwhile, remain faithful to my anachronistic combo.
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