A lot can happen in a year when you’re the worlds largest search engine. Here’s my Google Wrapped 2023 video showing you everything toxic they did in the last 12 months.
A lot can happen in a year when you’re the worlds largest search engine. Here’s my Google Wrapped 2023 video showing you everything toxic they did in the last 12 months.
The video’s summary is an actual summary, so clearly they took this into account.
The bridge one is a little unfair. The directions were bad and the route hadn’t been updated for 9 years since the bridge collapsed, and that’s just Google’s shitty map algorithm not respecting corrections unless a bunch of people make them, but that man’s death was on local authorities for leaving a collapsed bridge completely accessable from the road without any barriers and warnings for 9 straight years. It was raining, it was dark, there was poor visibility, but Maps was never meant to be a substitute for your eyes.
I’d argue there’s not enough here, frankly. This is mostly corporate stuff, but there’s a lot of other toxic shit they’ve been doing on the technical end.
Trying to slip web integrity checking into Chrome, for one. Only to get pushed back and instead opt to shove it into Android for now.
Their all-out war on ad blockers as it deliberately degrades the experience of YouTube for everyone except Premium subscribers. (Remembering that increasing the ads degrades the experience for everyone even before you start arguing about how they target ad-blockers)
Manifest V3
It’s not getting a lot of attention but Play Integrity on Android has been getting vicious in the last few months as Google continues the push to punish users for wanting to use their hardware on their own terms.
So on and so on.
Thanks! I just really dislike having to watch a video for something that I can read in less time.
Seconded. I hate that information these days revolves around someone getting views or being spoon fed at their pace via video. I can read a list or a summary in a minute or two.