[thewhitetulip]

Google is at a very influential position these days, everything is Google, and Facebook is trying it's damnest to become like Google.

Google, for the most parts, is the Internet, chrome, gmail, search engine, android, good lord even walking robots! We are lucky that they g+ failed miserably :D

Otherwise we'd not have Internet, we'd have Google, nothing in the world beyond it. Nobody to check it's power, except maybe the EU, but that's their jurisdiction.

I recently bought a macbook pro, whenever I visit google.com using macbook I get a small popup -> visit your privacy setting, no other platform did I ever get that popup. They apparently discriminate it. For work we use US network, and there I regularly see that popup, never on an Indian IP that I got that message. Apparently they think Indian's do not care much about their privacy. Too much for Don't be evil.

[dgacmu]

You're getting downvoted because you're making an easily falsifiable claim. AWS hosts an absolutely staggering number of websites. Heck - DreamHost has 1.5 million sites. EIG, through a ton of subsidiary brands, hosts millions of sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group

It may be surprising to those of us who hang out on HN, but Hotmail has over 360 million email customers. Yahoo (okay, okay) has over a quarter of a million. Yandex and QQ have dominant regional market share.

Access? Comcast, Verizon, I'm looking at you, at least in the U.S.

Backbone? Hi, AT&T, L3, NTT, <list of non-Google/Facebook companies>.

Amusing that you have a Macbook pro. I think there might be a $579B company with a huge market share of the mobile market (safari, not Chrome) sitting there.

Facts and actual data talk, not fear and rhetoric. The world has nuance that deserves credit.

[thewhitetulip]

This is the reason Steve Jobs hated social networks. had he been on a social network in 1980s telling everyone that "hey PCs are going to be a big deal ten-twenty years later" he'd have been ridiculed, and shown the The Dunning–Kruger effect, yeah know that.

Ultimately everything in life is an opinion, all that matters is we do what we feel is right and in general isn't outright incorrect, just because you people have the ability to downvote comments doesn't make you more informed than I am, especially when you don't understand what i am trying to say or i am not clear at what I say, that doesn't give you the right to be derogatory though, but this is HN and that behaviour is expected.

[thewhitetulip]

"at least in the U.S." and you justify downvoting my thread.

When I said Google is the Internet, and you don't understand it, then I pity that you people have the ability to downvote comments on this site.

Not everyone in the world means literally, when I say GOogle is the Internet that means Google is so powerful a company that 90+% of search market is with them, yes doubleclick I am looking at you, gmail, youtube, android, chromebook, google books, self driving car, a robotic cheetah that runs 200 something km per hour. That is scary.

I am getting downvoted because the people who are downvoting don't understand what I am trying to say. yeah go ahead and downvote this and justify your actions. doesn't make the things I say less than the truth.

Every computer I see has google chrome and google as the default search engine, God knows they did a research I read which tells the gender of the person by the way the keep their phone in their hand, can't cite it here because I am short on time.

Google is scary. The kind of power they have, had it not been for the EU they would have been even more dangerous, thankfully and regretfully EU has authority only in the EU.

[thewhitetulip]

go ahead downvote, but that is the reality. You just don't know it.