Google wants to kill open Web under the guise of making it safer
adguard.comA group of Google engineers has proposed a new Web API that threatens to uproot the work of apps and browsers if they interfere with its ad business. Will the open Web survive?
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“Under the guise of making it safer…” I see…
Let me just leave this here https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/statc-stealer-decoding-elusive-malware-threat
“Do no evil” - yeah right
That’s why they dropped it :(
They removed those words from their code of conduct in 2018. Literally showing evil has been incorporated into their moves.
I feel like this should made as a stickied post, from how often I’ve seen the quote come up, and the correction.
edit: or a bot that comments about when the motto was dropped on any post that mentions google.