<story><title>Google Fights Back</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2019/google-fights-back/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambler</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;It all begins with our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, and today, our mission feels as relevant as ever.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I said this 15 years ago and I will repeat it again. Google is like a man selling boats after a dam brake. They are profiting by managing the problem, not by fixing it. It is to their benefit if the problem actually gets worse. In other words, looking at their long-running effects and initiatives, I see that they aim to change the Internet so that it&amp;#x27;s completely unusable without their services. (The recent stunts with AMP and Gmail are great, obvious examples, but it didn&amp;#x27;t start there. It was going on for a very long while.)&lt;p&gt;This not the kind of thing that I want to spread to my offline life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TulliusCicero</author><text>What exactly are you suggesting here? What&amp;#x27;s the fundamental problem that Google is managing instead of fixing, once and for all?</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Fights Back</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2019/google-fights-back/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambler</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;It all begins with our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, and today, our mission feels as relevant as ever.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I said this 15 years ago and I will repeat it again. Google is like a man selling boats after a dam brake. They are profiting by managing the problem, not by fixing it. It is to their benefit if the problem actually gets worse. In other words, looking at their long-running effects and initiatives, I see that they aim to change the Internet so that it&amp;#x27;s completely unusable without their services. (The recent stunts with AMP and Gmail are great, obvious examples, but it didn&amp;#x27;t start there. It was going on for a very long while.)&lt;p&gt;This not the kind of thing that I want to spread to my offline life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>Google is also holding the plunger that helped create the dam breakage. Not to mention the pry-bars being applied to any attempts to fix the dam.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: For those who want to downvote, consider that the vast majority of Google&amp;#x27;s revenue comes from the use of your personal information to target you with ads, and that most of the advances in ad targeting using personal data have been made by Google.</text></comment>