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.

  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year 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.

  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 year 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.

  • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year 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.

  • echinacea@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

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

  • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

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

  • vane@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

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

  • azha@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year 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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      1 year 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.

  • rolling@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year 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 🙃”

    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year 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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        1 year 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.

    • graff@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

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

        • graff@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year 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 :)