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I think that's just the HN bubble? HN threads always seem weirdly pro-Google and anti-Facebook compared to my real-life friends' views (even when some of those friends work at Google).

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It used to be like that, I think. In the last year or so, the threads became both anti-Google and anti-Facebook, and to much stronger degree than regular people (including techies).

I.e. here people at least notice and care. Every other community I've been a part of - at workplace, at hackerspace, at home - everyone's just "so they do spy on you, who cares ¯\_(ツ)_/¯".

Yes, I think this comes with the tech side of this platform. Many developers still dream of a job at google and would take it in an instance. You would need a lot of mental gymnastics to call out googles evil practices regarding privacy at the same time.

In my non-tech circle of friends both are equally regarded to as evil spying megacorps.

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