[kop316]

I wonder if it's simpler than that: Google (Alphabet) has destroyed a lot of good will in the past two years, and the comments in the section reflect that.

I can think of several instances in the past two years that makes me mistrust them more, such as taking down accounts at random and taking a peron's entire digital life with it (causing me to move as much as possible off of Google), the random flagging of documents (aka, they actively scan them and will take off content they don't like), etc.

On the stock Android phone (I have a Nexus), it has felt that they have been trying actively to suck up as much data as possible (the final straw for me to put on a custom ROM is when their google keyboard sent everything I typed to thir servers, effectively making it a keylogger).

I personally think the skeptism they have now is very warrented, and the days "Don't be evil" is long gone.

[goialoq]

Ranking documents by quality and choosing what to index has been Google's mission since Day 1. That never changed.

[kop316]

What I was referring to was the incident recently where they flagged people's Google docs (even private ones) and locked people out of it.