It’s a well-known fact that Google spies on users, which isn’t anything new. However, the fact that they are now using this as a reference in a marketing meme is insulting.
Google is now making jokes at customers expense, using memes for promotional ads on Reddit, and saying that they don’t care about you because they know people will still buy their ad-platform spyware products.
Well, I say 🖕Google! Your corporate capitalism greed gets another 🖕! Oh, and before I forget, 🖕too reddit.
Edit: removed mention of a certain country
However, the fact that they are now using this as a reference in a marketing meme is insulting.
Google is now making jokes at customers expense,
Google sucks but they’re not doing either of those. You’re missing the point and using privacy minded thinking to misunderstand.
Are you not familiar with the whole “I spy” thing? Ie: they see something you don’t see, they know something you don’t know?
I assume you’re not in the US and not familiar with that?
Question still stands: who tf greenlit this? No chance they don’t know the other connotations
I highly doubt they’re worried about less than the 1% not seeing the obvious meaning of what they said. They’re marketing to the masses, which would very much know and pick up on the “I spy” thing.
That just expands the question: do they not know about other countries?
Many of us have certain connotations with google, and while we know the game in our native language, it’s not the first thing we think about when thinking “Google says: I spy”.
I am familiar with that and don’t believe your take is accurate. When asking this question, it’s followed with a description of the thing you spy.
“I spy… do you?” is the text of the ad and the text following that doesn’t make it make any more sense either, “Game more than you thought you could.”
I assume you’re not in the US and not familiar with that?
No, other side of the world. No, not familiar with that.
It’s a very common game here, especially for children (and has been for decades)… Here’s an example https://youtu.be/8N2Ha1FuBr4?si=XN9QeSYPrg1JzBuR
It’s very similar to where is Waldo if you’ve heard of that, except “Waldo” can be anything the person who’s running the game wants it to be.
Thx for showing me that. I had no idea. Still to me, someone who lives on the other side of the world opposite of America, to see the phrase “I spy… Do you…” From Google felt a lot like, well, my post says it all.
Appreciate you educating me on that.
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Are they trying to relate themselves to the cyberpunk corps? Who tf greenlit this
I (charitably) think the fact is that they may also have misunderstood Cyberpunk to be more about hacking than it actually is, and are using “spy” despite a lot of CP2077 not being necessarily about remote hacking cameras at all.
my bet is one of their bots made this and they don’t even know this ad is out in the wild until someone brings it up
the elites and corps have always done this sort of thing. if you rule over billions of retards wouldn’t you also make fun?
