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please, for the love of god, stop with the "google is evil" crap. every single post about google, there's at least a couple comments saying google is violating their don't be evil principle. it's really fucking annoying. can't you find a criticism that's at least a little bit more original?

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You shouldn't dismiss my question just because it reminds you of things others have said. I'm not those other people, I have no idea what you've read. I'm sorry my question isn't "original" enough for you. Google is a huge tech company and anyone who reads tech news hears a good amount of criticism about them. You don't find it weird that they changed duck.com to point to their domain when DuckDuckGo's founder inquired about it? It seems more likely that you didn't even think about it because I brought up their slogan.

I have read here comments along the lines of "Anyone doing that would be evil, but here it's Google. So it's OK. Google would never do any harm" (it was a post about privacy)

The "Google is evil" trend may be an overreaction to those comments, but it embodies a sane criticism in my opinion. It gives a counterpart to the awkward "Google is my big brother"

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