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I'm happy to see this being noticed more and more. Google wants to destroy the open web, so it's a lot at stake.

Google basically says "Trust us". What a joke.

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They used to have a motto like "Do no evil", which was kinda sus to begin with (they were a search engine in a time when many didn't even consider the evil possibilities of the internet). But if you start out with a motto like that, it's even more sus if you suddenly drop it, which they did.

[–] mog77a@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They didn't "drop it". It's still there. Scroll all the way to the bottom.

They simply removed it from higher profile places and don't mention it until the very end. Sort of a jab at the old policy.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, so it is. Still hard to tell if it's genuine or PR.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Usually when a company loudly proclaims that "we have this quality" they're compensating for not in fact having it.

You get the same in people: "I'm so smart", "I'm so beautiful", "I'm so confident" and so on are usually said to others by people who don't actually believe they have such (otherwise self-evident) qualities.

In that logic "Do no Evil" was a red flag.