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Google founders’ exit signals end of era at search giant

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Shouldn't the title of this be "Subscribe to FT"? Because that's the page I see when I click the link.

I just realized outline.com also doesn't handle ft.com :-(

> please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

I'd argue that HN cannot expect constructive and substantive discussion on an article people can't even read. HN is bringing (a lot) of traffic to these websites thus potential revenue. Allowing paywalled articles never made sense.

Agree. We need this dissent so that HN can change it’s posting rules: No posting paywalled content.

I agree on this one too. Plus as a result of the paywalls, HN is linking to pirated content, which is not good I guess.

It's like if you watch a trailer on YouTube and people post in the comments a link to the full stream.

Agreed. This topic is covered in other sites. Paywall links should be banned from the main link of a post.

There certainly was an era, but it ended a long time ago, around 2010 when products like Google Plus and Google Glass emerged as a painfully stupid ideas, and it became obvious that Google was implementing true surveillance state agenda mandates, like always-on wearable, internet-enabled cameras and real name policies.

That was the end, and what we see now is that while those overt efforts may have failed, some of the more subtle B2B plays have been wildly succesful in achieving comparable goals.

Google Plus also looks like a major milestone to me. I was initially a fanboy and dearly wanted to love it, but ultimately the UI design was too awful even for me. It must have been quite frustrating for the legion of developers involved to realize they were working on a doomed project.

The other major milestone in my mind was the leak of internal communications immediately after the Damore fiasco. I'm indifferent to his firing, which I consider to be uncontroversial by corporate standards. But reading Googlers (some in management) blocking and threatening each other, sometimes with firing or even industry blacklisting was shocking. I've never seen anything as unprofessional in any work context whatsoever, and it completely changed my view of Google.

If I were them I would quit now in case the whole "regulate big tech" goes south, that way they don't get the blame and can make a come back to rally the troops. Also, if it goes south the play is blame and fire the CEO.

https://archive.is/YVy2C

You have to give it to Bezos and Hastings for sticking in there for so long.

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