I don't like Google but

[lonelyislet]

First of all I generally dislike Google as a company but having said that you need to separate the various "factions"

Waymo is pretty good, while Chrome is corrupt

They're a kind of general AI/research company

Their censorship arguably does exist (it's hard to tell, with SEO - ideally we'd match websites by keywords but it's not always possible and the internet is noisy) and I'd like to know more about that and especially with Youtube and oh by the way their (Youtube's) years long practice of copyright strikes

However with that being said -

Google (Gmail, specifically) offers data takeout options. You have access to people's email addresses. If you send someone an email they actually get it, at worst it will visibly go into the Spam folder (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090712, by contrast). Facebook replaced people's email addresses in people's profiles. They introduced mandatory encryption where if you clear cookies you might lose access to your messages. They offered people an "unsend" option only after they had been caught doing it with Zuckerberg's messages

Zuckerberg is many things. Even intelligent. But he seems sociopathic and people would do well not to forgive him so easily ("he was young", "he was joking", "he was making a point" - re: "dumb fucks")

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[lonelyislet]

Oh and speaking of censorship, I mean, they can ban you at any time while you report really vile shit and they give you "does not violate community guidelines"

Zuckerberg is a criminal and Facebook is a fucking blight on the internet and it should've been shut down in 2004