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Can you list some ways Google has hurt you? You know, aside from all the harm they caused by giving you access to almost limitless knowledge, providing you tons of free storage, helping you navigate the world around you, providing an open source competitor to iOS, and providing countless hours of free entertainment and educational videos on YouTube?

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All of those activities make them money. None of them are charity.

Hmm, some ways Google has hurt me. They bought Revolv and turned my expensive home automation into a paperweight to try and force me to buy into the Nest ecosystem. That's a good example.

Frustrating for sure, but you're comparing access to limitless knowledge and literally life transforming technologies that people even a few decades ago would have sold their soul for... to a home product that I think Google would refund you the price of. Keep things in perspective.

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