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It’s time for Alphabet to be broken up into separate letters.

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I would settle for “broken”

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I think the X is already taken

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X isn’t in alphabet, silly.

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I can’t wait for the “D Corporation” to be born out of it

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Surprised pikachu face An ad company is gonna do what an ad company nets more profit.

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I feel like at this point it should be obvious but because they have their fingers in so many pies a lot of people don’t notice.

Google is an ad company and basically everything they do at this point serves that. They should have changed their name to doubleclick.

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When you need to please shareholders, this is what happens.

I think the Don’t Be Evil motto was true up until they decided to go public. That was the start of the end, basically.

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Once claimed to stand for

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TIL a new word “enshittification”

_enshittification entails these steps:

first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves._

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Cory Doctorow is usually pretty interesting. Here is the essay where he talks about enshittification. Not some huge revelation, but truth nonetheless.

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