Google taught me it's OK to be evil : memes

[-] Brustadnrift@lemm.ee 208 points 1 year ago

Man, this is depressing. While I wasn’t “raised online” since I was raised on dialup and couldn’t block the phone line all that long.

I still remember when google was the new kid on the block and the general feeling about them across early Internet forums.

Microsoft was evil because they copied everybody else’s stuff and wanted to charge for it. Apple was clueless making expensive junk. Sun was a darling for a while at least until they started pulling shit.

Enter mother-fucking-Google. Ethical. Honest. Not evil. Smart. Supporting open source. And on top of all that, FREE to use. Like Microsoft wants to charge you for hotmail if you want an inbox > 2MB? Fucking EVIL!!! Google is ethical because they are completely free!!! And I hear they are working on an email service too. Google just wants to shepherd the internet and protect it from companies like Microsoft, Apple, and AOL.

Oh Google.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 91 points 1 year ago

A company that survives long enough eventually gets turned to the dark $ide. Greedy asshats will always ruin a good thing for their own benefit

[-] kittenbridgeasteroid@discuss.tchncs.de 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any company that becomes publicly traded gets turned to the dark side. That's the factor that does it because they have a legal requirement to do everything they can to maximize profits.

Trying to sustain perpetual growth will always lead to companies fucking over their customers and employees.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

While I feel this is true there are so few privately owned companies that prove this as fact. Holds breath that steam never fucks over its customers

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I live Valve, but there's always that nagging bit in the back of my mind reminding me that they can always turn evil in the span of a few years. And the recent debacle with Dolphin doesn't help

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[-] THED4NIEL@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

The biggest problem in my opinion is, when companies stop to be companies and instead turn into glorified money trees whose only purpose is to shake all value from, value generated by the people who have to work there.

Once a company sells its soul to investors, it becomes nothing more than a human in the Matrix: a thing to harvest, to be kept alive until nothing of value remains, then thrown aside and disposed.

Source: I speak from experience, worked at one investor-driven enterprise and one that is listed on exchanges

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Being good is good for growth, but investors eventually want that payout.

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[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

'You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

[-] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 year ago

Google was so exciting. Gmail especially.

We were so keen to ditch yahoo messenger and msn as soon as facebook messenger came out too.

Now it all sucks.

[-] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

This made me really nostalgic for times when the internet still felt new and promising...

[-] Aielman15@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I miss the old days, browsing internet forums and discovering for the first time that there exist people out there who like the same nerdy things that I do!

[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 year ago

Google didn't have a plan to keep from becoming evil. They just had a cute motto.

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[-] TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 92 points 1 year ago

Shoutout to Deviantart, they a real one

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[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 year ago

All of this led to me ditching all of those (except YouTube, this is without a real alternative due to the content exclusively hosted there) and starting to self-host my stuff and joining the Fediverse.

[-] festemmie@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

you can use invidious or piped on PC and newpipe on a phone. just be careful cause i heard google removed newpipe from the playstore and someone put something malicious with the same name, but im not sure how that situation is going

[-] Kovpak@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I use the NewPipe fork with Sponsorblock as an optional feature. You can get NewPipe on F-Droid here and the fork with Sponsorblock here.

As a rule of thumb, I always check their respective GitHub pages for links, I don't really trust the Google Store. There are too many spam duplicates of various apps, especially FOSS ones.

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[-] jlou@mastodon.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To have some sort of viable fediverse alternative to YouTube, the developers of it would have to abandon some of the free software principles that current fediverse platforms uphold. There needs to be a way to monetize to attract creators and get people to host the servers

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[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

Lemmy seems to be trying its best to teach me about furry porn.

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

While I'm not into furry porn, I love the community around it. I've actually had random encounters with a few furies and they are awesome peeps.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know, you can be into furry stuff without being into all the porn...they ARE separable. It's not any more harmful than anime fans or trekkies, really. There's tons of crossover, actually.

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[-] derpysmilingcat@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Listen I didn't choose the life, the life chose me.

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[-] voidavoid@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 year ago

Someone's underestimating the age of the internet.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah but...ordinary people were not dialing into BBS forums back then. We weren't "raised" online like kids now are, we were able to log off anytime and not ever need it to function in society. That started changing in the early 2000s. All my kid's school assignments are now done on a laptop on a district-owned cloud system. He hasn't needed a pencil and paper in...I forgot how long.

If you're around my age, congratulations on being the last generation to ever know what the world was like before widespread use of the Internet.

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[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

Eh. But what does it mean to be raised online? I think for that you need the availability of ever present internet connections in the form of mobile devices. I think the first kids raised online would have been born in 2003, and would have been 4, preschool age, in 2007 when the iPhone came out. Those kids are 16 now. If we want to set the standard for "raised online" as being "digital native" then I think we should dial back the range to when AIM was popular. Again, setting the standard for who could have been raised with that constant interconnectedness as being someone who was 4 at time of introduction would give us the first AIM connected people reaching age 30 right now.

The reality is, I think, in the middle. The first generation we could say was raised online is basically right in between those two ages, 23. The other standard we could try to set is, who is the first generation who doesn't remember the internet as exciting, just instead a daily part of life

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[-] Unaware7013@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Seriously, Eternal September was like 30 years ago.

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[-] Gallardo994@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Pornhub taught me I'm picky af

[-] Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago

Pornhub taught me people like incest. Maybe it's related to game of thrones?

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[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

rule34 sites taught me I could be porn

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[-] thenofootcanman@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Jesus what was the original version of this?

[-] PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Cringe. The original version is cringe.

[-] EliasChao@lemmy.one 24 points 1 year ago

Gotchu fam!

[-] SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Youtube taught you to be yourself? The site where basically everyone fakes a striking and cheerful personality because of how difficult it is to build an audience if you don't?

[-] oryx@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

To be fair, old YouTube wasn't always like this, and the picture has all old logos in it.

[-] Anarch157a@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It's clear the original was made before all those sites enshittified into their current forms. That's why it mentions Vine instead of TikTok, which is notable for having been enshittified from day 1.

[-] thenofootcanman@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

The sweet release of death cannot come soon enough

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[-] Crozekiel@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago

One of these things is not like the other...

DeviantArt really caught me off guard... lol

[-] xerazal@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 year ago

This is what neoliberalism does. It privatizes everything, including the individual. Everyone is a product. Everyone has a "brand".

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[-] Roundcat@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Vine taught me you're worthless unless you're making someone else money.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

Sounds like it prepared you for the world economy

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[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

I need to log into my old deviantArt account again. Those were fun times.

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[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Which generation? Im 36 and i was definitely raised online.

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[-] KeefChief12@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Let vine rest easy

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

One of these things is not like the others.

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

i cannot escape YouTube at all for sure and i do want to use instagram sometimes + GIB VINE

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago

Use YouTube.com in firefox with u-block origin. Works well enough while not giving them ad revenue.

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