For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

  • anachrohack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    So the author was fine with every other fucked up, privacy invading, monopolistic practice from Google, but it was a tenuous relationship with Israel that they can’t forgive?

    • coffeeismydrug@lemm.eeEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      i mean monopolistic and privacy invading versus associating with something that is slaughtering women and children in their own land, it’s not the same in my opinion.

    • diffusive@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      As much I care about privacy and free market, I still consider war or genocide to be worse. Call me crazy 🤷‍♂️

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      Listen pal, I was fine with invading Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark and the Netherlands, but I draw the line at France!

  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    I degoogled for the first time two days ago aaaaand, it’s actually way easier than I expected and actually, dare I say… fun?

    Fun in that I have new apps to try, all over the place. I spent that whole evening combing f-droid for everything I need and got it all sorted out.

    SMS? Backed up

    Contacts? Backed up

    Photos? Syncthing’d

    Passwords? I’m a card carrying Keepass user.

    Music? Pulled down my streaming service from Aurora and it just works.

    Email? Thunderbird’d’d

    Cloud? Mini PC’d and NFS’d

    Google? Gone and not missed.

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      Email? Thunderbird’d’d Thunderbird is only a mail client. Don’t forget to actually move from gmail if you want to degoogle.

  • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    For some reason I don’t find her sudden change of heart convincing. & I am happy to know that the rest of you feel the same.

  • rolling@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    She is still working there. Yeah, sure, maybe she is taking a risk now that her name is out there publicly criticizing, but this article is just for her to feel good about herself. “But look guys, I think Google sucks too, I am not bad like them. I just help them accomplish their goals and get paid for it 🙃”

        • primemagnus@lemmy.caEnglish
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          16 hours ago

          Yes you’re right. One overtly murders people in gruesome fashion. The other, does it insidiously by destroying the social fabric of communities so mass corporations can swoop in and own everything, forcing you into a further existence of consumption or death. Enjoy working 16h a day under your corporate overlords.

    • graff@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 day ago

      If all the people who disagreed left, there would be no chance of opposition

      • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
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        21 hours ago

        You can’t change things from the inside. A level 3 software developer isn’t changing what google is doing.

        She has more power if she’s been there 20 years, but probably not much.

        • graff@lemm.eeEnglish
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          19 hours ago

          That may be true, but you know who has less influence than a level 3 software developer working at Google? Someone who doesn’t work at Google :)

    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      She could have said nothing and kept quiet like the thousands of other workers at Google, this could not only get her fired but maybe even blacklisted in the industry, that’s far more than you’ve ever done or will ever do to bring attention to this issue, so how about you keep that cynicism in check.

      • rolling@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        18 hours ago

        Ohh nooo. Poor her with all the stock options she got while working there from basically their startup days. Whatever this poor damsel will do with 20+ years of experience working in one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

        I might not have the platform to bring attention to this issue, but hey, at least I don’t actively help them, do their work and then reap the benefits of all the evil they do anyways.

        Unlike her, my issues with Google does not end with the Israel issue. Google is evil regardless of this single issue.

      • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
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        20 hours ago

        Well she’s been working their since 2005. So she doesn’t need the job. Or money. Or anything. She’s just there.

        Maybe you’re the one who should keep the cynicism in check if you think people who have every they could ever have wanted and have benefited on the evil deeds of their employer to the tune of millions and millions of dollars wouldn’t speak out.

      • primemagnus@lemmy.caEnglish
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        23 hours ago

        100% will get her fired. 100%. Not now as it’s too connectable to the post she made, but in 6 months, they’ll find a reason to can her that can’t be traced to this.

        I recall reading about one senior on the search team who had worked there for over a decade criticizing the changes G keeps making to favor their own interests (ads mostly) saying it degrades search results (he was right too as G has fallen to the same levels of DDG/Bing and Yahoo).

        He got shuffled into a dead roll over the course of a year so he could no longer deter the project.

        Now that’s a guy who didn’t want to build a bad product. What happens to people who take political stances that could hurt G’s revenue and stock prices? Yeah. She’s toast.

  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Do they feel heartbreak over the millions of dollars in compensation and stock options they’ve collected in those decades? Easy to write piece like this and go back to your comfortable lifestyle and just feel the fuzzy feeling of speaking out about a bad guy.

  • azha@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Ive been using Vivaldi for over 3 years and never been happier plus I don’t have any google account and degoogled my devices.

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      Vivaldi is closed-source, and it still uses Google’s engine. Good for you for moving away from Google, but you have much better options available to you: FireDragon, Zen, and the rest of the Mozilla browsers.

  • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Absolute monsters, they need to be culled, removed from power and influence.

  • echinacea@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Google/Alphabet’s previous CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt was best friends with Henry Kissinger.

  • vane@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Project Maven started in 2017. Stop making evil people famous and expecting something will change.