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by seangrant 2566 days ago
This is something I've wondered... Do all Facebook/Google employees drink the Kool aid? Are there no privacy proponents?
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You have to have loose morals & ethics, be a misanthrope, or be completely oblivious to the world to even work at Facebook or Google anymore.
I think you could make that case easily for Facebook but less easily for Google. The number of useful Google products (AOSP, for instance) is enormous. They contribute massively to open source†. Their co-founders clearly have less evil tendencies that Facebook's founder. Their free products are insanely useful. A lot of Google's products have a price tag attached to them especially for the enterprise sector where they don't trade your data. I would compare Google to Apple and Microsoft and Amazon. Facebook is a totally different entity – I'm of the opinion that Facebook should _never_ have been allowed to acquire WhatsApp and Instagram.

† Before anyone points out that FB contribute to open source… they've about, what, 50 projects, Google has over 2,000 and has been running that Google Summer of Code project for many years which supports 1,000s of projects outside Google.