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Former Google boss launches scathing Silicon Valley

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> Former Google boss launches scathing Silicon Valley (dailymail.co.uk)

Can't help feel that the title is missing something.

> Former Google boss launches scathing Silicon Valley attack urging tech giants to end the delusion that it's making the world a better place

Many people in charge at Google are starting to realize the size of the completely uncontrollable monster they've created and prefer to walk away before the rest of the world catches up.

When the eye of Sauron moves away from FB and starts to focus on Google, smart cookies like Powell will be long gone and the bag holders will have to face the music,

'you can target users down to the tiniest pixel'

What is this even supposed to mean?

It means that Google will soon present a Pixel [1] with a half-inch screen, to be worn as a ring around your finger.

It has some strange inscriptions around the inside which nobody has yet discovered the meaning of:

  Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul

 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_(smartphone)

Never thought I would see a link from Daily Mail on HN

I see them pop up a lot on Reddit at least. I don't think a huge proportion of Americans know just how bad they are or their history.

For anyone who doesn't already know, there's quite a lot of info out there, but here's a quick link regarding their support for the Nazis: https://futiledemocracy.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/my-dear-fuh...

That's easy to check—simply click on the domain name next to the title: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dailymail.co.uk

Some good articles show up occasionally: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story....

On HN we care about article quality more than site quality. There are many low-quality sites that occasionally cough up a good story. (Not saying this submission was one of those.)

Not really scathing, Jessica Powell, former PR head, also launching a book about SV.

Seems well places article will boost sales.

> ‘It’s very easy to forget that that’s electoral interference, that’s live-streamed suicides, that’s Myanmar. It’s really horrific stuff.’

Looks like another attack on big tech that’s at heart fueled by the belief that Trump only won because of it.

Is there another source apart from the Daily Mail? They're a terrible rag with atrocious journalism quality and a history of bigotry.

She has a medium blog.

Here's her original article:

https://medium.com/s/the-big-disruption/why-i-left-my-big-fa...

It was posted on HN but didn't get much attention:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18155961

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