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> Corporations only exist to make profit. They will never take an action that risks that.

This is absolutely 100% an action (one among many over the years) that guarantees I (for one) will never give Google another thin dime of my money for any reason if there's any way I can avoid it. Permanently lost profit from at least this one user (who was at one time in the past a huge Google fanboi)...

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This is completely legitimate and of enough people do as you do, Google will act. But clearly there's not enough people like that. Always vote with your wallet.

I was also a fanboy once, but a straw broke that particular camel's back a long time ago. I already wasn't planning on ever giving Google any money, so they're not losing any income from me.

> I was also a fanboy once, but a straw broke that particular camel's back a long time ago.

That "straw" for me was when they decided that "Don't be Evil" actually meant "be as evil as we can every chance we get"... Every evil action they've taken since then just makes me just that much more certain that I want to actively avoid Google products as much as I possibly can for the rest of my life.

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