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Does anyone here NOT hate Google?

I’m curious because I see a ton of Google hate on here daily. It’s certainly not all unwarranted, and I do agree with some of the privacy concerns.

That being said I do very much enjoy their products. Gmail, Photos, Chrome, Gemini, Home, Assistant, YouTube, Pixel phones, etc… I’ve tried out many of the alternatives but always come back to their ecosystem.

Curious as to how many of you here on the fedi use Google products without the common associated angst from the FOSS community.

FeelThePower ,
@FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

The only thing I honestly don’t hate from them is YouTube, which I still use often. But I hate how they treat it now, so they lose points there. And Gboard too, but they seem to have abandoned updating it sadly.

Carighan ,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

WDYM? It seems to update every 1-2 days on the beta channel for me, always fine-tuning some language or another. Do they not push updates to non-beta any more?

FeelThePower ,
@FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Well, I’m on iOS

I_Miss_Daniel ,

I’m happy with most of their stuff and use it a lot (calendar, drive, keep etc) but I know not to trust them not to kill things. I keep an IMAP copy of my emails and a local copy of my photos just in case…

FuckyWucky ,

i hate all tech corps. you can use (and even like) their products and also think they are evil, oligopolies and all.

i cant abandon my gmail because i don’t even know how many sites and how many people i have given it to. i like youtube because it’s THE slop factory. Maps is also pretty good, love Street View, Chrome is ‘ok’ but Firefox is a perfectly usable (and in many ways, better) substitute (especially given Google’s ad shenanigans).

zelifcam , (edited )
@zelifcam@lemmy.world avatar

Made a decision long ago that I’m not going to browse the web, setup a calendar of life events or store my email with the largest advertising company in the world.

Their “eco system” is not the best and their hardware has been hit or miss over the years.

I understand why people do use them and I will use their products when absolutely required. I don’t hate them, I just avoid them.

nalinna ,

I’ve been actively trying to extricate myself from their ecosystem. I hate how incredibly challenging it is.

Kusimulkku ,

There’s just so much to hate

meldrik ,

Google make some good products. I am just not willing to trade my privacy for it.

probableprotogen ,

I hate google’s products BUT some of their free stuff like Google Fonts and Tensorflow are really nice

Confused_Emus ,

I at least enjoy their fiber internet service.

UID_Zero ,
@UID_Zero@infosec.pub avatar

I’m indifferent to them. I use their products, but I’m not a huge fan. I use them because I dislike the alternatives more.

I’ve been considering trying to degoogle myself, but honestly it would be complicated, and there’s a wife-approval factor that likely hinders that. We have multiple Chromecasts, Next hubs, etc around the house, and my wife likes the ease of use. I am slowly building up a home assistant instance, but still tying it into the Google home integration for ease of wife approval.

I use what works best for me, and right now most of those options are from Google.

Balinares ,

It’s not the company it once was, but there are also a lot of outrage-bait headlines about it that don’t hold up well to scrutiny.

For instance, there have been a lot of Lemmy posts about Chrome supposedly removing the APIs used by adblockers. I figured I’d validate that on my own by switching to the version of uBlock that is based on the new API. Well… As it turns out, it works fine. It’s also faster.

Mind you, figuring out the actual facts behind each post gets exhausting, and people just shutting down and avoiding the problem space entirely makes some sort of sense. That, and it is healthy for an ecosystem to have alternatives, so I’d keep encouraging usage of Firefox and such if only on that basis alone.

paddirn ,

I wanted to like Google, I bought into the whole ecosystem and still regularly use my gmail account, but they’ve fallen quite far in my eyes. They’ve killed off multiple features I used extensively, Search, the thing they should be good at, just isn’t as dependable as it used to be, I don’t trust using Chrome anymore, and the company overall just seems like a pale reflection of its former self. I just don’t trust them as a company. Not as bad as Meta or anything Musk touches, but still bad.

Kalkaline ,
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I dislike a lot of what Google has done to their product and how people have screwed up searches with SEO nonsense. Recipes are a prime example of what I dislike about Google. Gemini is way less useful than the Assistant used to be. I’m still waiting for Microsoft to dip their toes back into the cell phone market or see some FOSS alternatives to Android/iOS that are supported by service providers. Ultimately I just have to put up with it.

victorz ,

I grew up with “hate” being reserved for the very extreme feeling, and I don’t think I have hated anything or anyone since I started understanding what it really means. I have no reason to. Not even Trump. But I do wish they hadn’t missed.

Anyway, so, no, I don’t hate Google. But I am actively trying to find ways to leave their ecosystem. Even paid alternatives.

southsamurai ,
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Hate? Ehhhh, no.

At least, no more than I hate any monolithic megacorp. You can’t really hate something that empty.

I mean, fuck Google, but trying to hate it is like trying to hate wind. Yeah, we could all get together and figure out a way to keep it from blowing, but you aren’t going to do so without a lot more work than people are willing to put in.

Most of Google’s apps work fine. Most of their services work smoothly. It’s the stuff they tack onto that that makes them hated, and it’s why I limit my use of their products. That is, however, a matter of choosing lesser evils far too often because all of the businesses in the same fields are also shitty.

If I was to waste hate on Google, it would be to their ceo and any board members. They’re the ones that make the company hateable.

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