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Cycode t1_isfg72n wrote

sometimes, it feels to me like they have a dick-size comparisation at google.. who can programm the most annoying thing to screw with customers or something like this..

like we do it on programmerhumour where people code the most annoying way to input telephone numbers into a formular as a joke.. just that they do it for real @ google.

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Whoopaow t1_isfkxvg wrote

We're not the customers, that's the corporations that advertise. It's been said a million times, but we, the viewers, are the product.

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Cycode t1_isflht6 wrote

without the viewers, there is nobody to advertise to. so its important to make sure people keep watching. if you make it always worse and worse, this has the contrary effect you normally should intent.

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Whoopaow t1_isg72k6 wrote

Yeah, true, but they're basically a monopoly. They're so firmly engrained into the culture that I doubt that's a real fear for them. Which sucks.

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Enschede2 t1_isfigpt wrote

Yea, I mean the google graveyard is evidence of that, all it takes is 1 competent competitor and I feel like google would be in shambles.
Unfortunately all the competitors kinda suck too

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