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  • Remy Rose@lemmy.one
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    2 months ago

    This kinda conflates hate for the unethical practices of the company with hate for the quality of their products, which seems unfair. As a company they're definitely bastards. There was a long, long period of time where their products were pretty unquestionably top-notch compared to everything else out there. However, for a while now everything has been going really downhill. Then recently it's really accelerated, especially with them leaning into AI. These days I hardly even miss them anymore.

  • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    What's not to hate? They're a monopoly corporation that isn't even pretending to adhere to their "don't be evil" slogan anymore

  • Nighed@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    Google spies on me, but actually provides useful services (other than search) for free (ish) in return.

    Microsoft want money for everything.

    The rest of big tech wants all your data for basically no gain.

    I don't trust Google, but for now the trade seems worth it.

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    I don't hate Google.

    I despise them. I loathe them. Common transitive verbs like hate don't encompass the depth and breadth of my disdain for Google.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    i hate all tech corps. you can use (and even like) their products and also think they are evil, oligopolies and all.

    i cant abandon my gmail because i don't even know how many sites and how many people i have given it to. i like youtube because it's THE slop factory. Maps is also pretty good, love Street View, Chrome is 'ok' but Firefox is a perfectly usable (and in many ways, better) substitute (especially given Google's ad shenanigans).

  • Hurculina Drubman@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    it's the user experience that makes me hate Google more than anything. "oh hey, come use our unified ecosystem, it's so much better because it's all Google" but as soon as you have a problem with Google Voice on your Google Pixel using your Google operating system, every fucking department tells you that it's another department's problem.

    they gutted multitasking after Android 10 because they were afraid it might cut into their YouTube music profits. they're just turning off their shortened URLs next year. they refuse to update Google Voice in any way. every time I've trusted them with something, they've broken that trust

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
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    2 months ago

    Google make some good products. I am just not willing to trade my privacy for it.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I'm not whom you're asking for but I'm obligated to say:

    That being said I do very much enjoy their products. Gmail, Photos, Chrome, Gemini, Home, Assistant, YouTube, Pixel phones, etc…

    With many of these products, you are the product being sold. I especially don't understand the point about going back w/ alternatives, eg gmail is just an email service; nothing changes for you as the end user if you just use a different email provider. Same for Photos, it's just a cloud hosting service. I only ever used it for syncing so I could replace it with syncthing, although I don't because I don't really care about accessing my photos on multiple devices. If I need a specific photo I'll grab it via usb cable or if I'm getting a new phone I'll copy over all the photos etc to my computer before wiping the phone. But if you need to sync you can just use syncthing, if you specifically need cloud hosting there are more privacy-respecting options out there that aren't by ad companies.

  • UID_Zero@infosec.pub
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    2 months ago

    I'm indifferent to them. I use their products, but I'm not a huge fan. I use them because I dislike the alternatives more.

    I've been considering trying to degoogle myself, but honestly it would be complicated, and there's a wife-approval factor that likely hinders that. We have multiple Chromecasts, Next hubs, etc around the house, and my wife likes the ease of use. I am slowly building up a home assistant instance, but still tying it into the Google home integration for ease of wife approval.

    I use what works best for me, and right now most of those options are from Google.

  • FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    The only thing I honestly don't hate from them is YouTube, which I still use often. But I hate how they treat it now, so they lose points there. And Gboard too, but they seem to have abandoned updating it sadly.