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It's a well-known fact that Google spies on users, which isn't anything new. However, the fact that they are now using this as a reference in a marketing meme is insulting.

Google is now making jokes at customers expense, using memes for promotional ads on Reddit, and saying that they don't care about you because they know people will still buy their ad-platform spyware products.

Well, I say πŸ–•Google! Your corporate capitalism greed gets another πŸ–•! Oh, and before I forget, πŸ–•too reddit.

Edit: removed mention of a certain country

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[–] random65837@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, I disagree, I don't make the assumption that they're considering a statistically insignificant group of people that hate them, or possibly countless other countries when using a well know saying in their marketing.

[–] ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you assuming that Google, which, as far as I'm aware, is an international company providing service to a multilingual userbase, has less than 1% non-native English speaking users?

I mean, I don't care much how Google advertises itself, even companies I do like sometimes make an unlucky promotion and that's fine, but I do find the arguments in this comment thread to make some wild assumptions.

[–] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

What seems like a wild assumption is that an ad in one language would be designed with what another language might think of the ad in mind. Why would a Chinese person care about a Mexican ad for Coca-Cola? You've found something to enjoy being upset at.

[–] random65837@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

Are you assuming that Google, which, as far as I'm aware, is an international company providing service to a multilingual userbase, has less than 1% non-native English speaking users?

I'm assuming nothing, nor did I ever say their English speaking data sources are less than 1%. That would be the privacy crowd that would be the ones to take simple marketing using a well known term and go into paranoia about it.

However, if I were to assume anything, it would be that an ad in English, would be geard towards English speakers, not others.