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arrow-up12.55Karrow-down1external-linkYoutube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.old.reddit.comdb0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square458linkfedilinkcross-posted to: bluemix@lemmy.worlddegoogle@lemmy.mltecnologia@lemmy.eco.brmildlyinfuriating@lemmy.worldwolnyinternet@szmer.info
minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up80arrow-down2·2 years ago“Do no evil1” 1 unless we can make money from it.
minus-squareJonEFive@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·2 years agoThere’s a reason that doesn’t appear on their site or in their docs any more. It was a canary clause.
minus-squareMarxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down5·2 years agoAny organisation that needs to remind themselves not to be evil is already intrinsically evil.
minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 years agoVery overtly and loudly claiming a quality which should be self-evident in oneself, one’s company or one’s nation invariably means it’s not really there.
minus-squareExcrubulent@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years ago“People’s Democratic Republic”
minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years ago“The Greatest Democracy In The World” - Lots of US politicians, including those activelly engaged in gerrymandering and passing vote supression laws. The dictum, supposedly from Einstein, about only the universe and human stupidity being infinite, needs to be ammended to include hypocrisy.
minus-squaretegs_terry@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoI think they changed it didn’t they?
minus-squareMarxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoI think it’s “do the right thing” now
minus-squareJonEFive@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 years agoRight - “Do no evil” uhhh… Is that not your default setting?
minus-squareSendMePhotos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 years agoI mean… “evil” is arbitrary, right?
minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years ago“It’s evil not to make as much money as possible”, Google founders. C-suite and board, probably.
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoNot arbitrary enough that they thought they could keep saying it. They ditched that about a decade ago.
minus-squarecannache@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoI feel like there’s scales of evil here Google starts to need to highlight on a whiteboard
minus-squareBoomkop3@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoNot anymore: they ditched it for “do the right thing (for my wallet)” a couple years back
minus-squaretrent@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoActually, their slogan was “Don’t be evil.” But they revised it recently by adding a comma after the first word.
“Do no evil1”
1 unless we can make money from it.
There’s a reason that doesn’t appear on their site or in their docs any more. It was a canary clause.
Any organisation that needs to remind themselves not to be evil is already intrinsically evil.
Very overtly and loudly claiming a quality which should be self-evident in oneself, one’s company or one’s nation invariably means it’s not really there.
“People’s Democratic Republic”
“The Greatest Democracy In The World” - Lots of US politicians, including those activelly engaged in gerrymandering and passing vote supression laws.
The dictum, supposedly from Einstein, about only the universe and human stupidity being infinite, needs to be ammended to include hypocrisy.
I think they changed it didn’t they?
I think it’s “do the right thing” now
For the shareholders
Ahh, much more leeway
Right - “Do no evil” uhhh… Is that not your default setting?
I mean… “evil” is arbitrary, right?
“It’s evil not to make as much money as possible”, Google founders. C-suite and board, probably.
Not arbitrary enough that they thought they could keep saying it. They ditched that about a decade ago.
I feel like there’s scales of evil here Google starts to need to highlight on a whiteboard
Not anymore: they ditched it for “do the right thing (for my wallet)” a couple years back
Actually, their slogan was “Don’t be evil.” But they revised it recently by adding a comma after the first word.