My ranking from most evil to least would be:
1. Google
2. Meta
3. Microsoft
4. Amazon
5. Apple
6. Netflix
My ranking from most evil to least would be:
1. Google
2. Meta
3. Microsoft
4. Amazon
5. Apple
6. Netflix
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...
Arguably they're all atrocious due to effects on environment and labour rights.
I never worked there and have no inside knowledge of what happened. Did they get taken over by MBAs who gained control of the company? Was it always evil and we were just misled the whole time? Something else?
And so on.
You can argue that maybe a highly competitive browser market would lead to more innovation, but I'm not sure that's the case. Could a highly fragmented market build something that is as good as Chrome? IDK, but my (moderate confidence) bet is no. Browsers are a pretty mature product at this point and I don't think that competition would produce enough competitive pressure to outweigh the massive resources of a dominant near monopoly.
And now Google is slowly but surely moving to shut down ad blocking.
Some of us just saw it coming a mile away.
It's almost like they were good at marketing.
I don't think so. Collecting data is a baseline for all those companies, you have to rank the evil they do with that data.
Google then aggregate all that data in the cloud, whereas even if Apple do collect data it’s almost never sent to the cloud for cross-analysis, it’s almost always on-device and therefore private.
They use Cassandra and make cool series ever now and then, like Love Death Robots. :-)
Citation needed. Did you forget that Google owns YouTube among other things? They don't need to torrent training data when people voluntarily upload an endless stream of it to their platform.