this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

this is actually the correct case - it is both written about (prabhakar raghavan, look him up), and the exact mechanics of how they did it were detailed in documents surfaced in one of the lawsuits that google recently lost (the ones that found they them to be a monopoly)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ackshually, Google became shit when they started posturing as a for-profit entity. Gather round, comrades, let us sing the internationale

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

ah yes, the borg deep cuts, iykyk

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 5 hours ago

I bring a sort of biological and technological uniqueness to the collective that the federation doesn’t really like