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How a Google side project evolved into a $4B company (techcrunch.com)
19 points by shreyanshd 2546 days ago
8 comments
mtmail 2546 days ago
Last years book "Never Lost Again" is a good account of the Keyhole/Google Earth/Google Maps story. (https://www.amazon.com/-/dp/0062673041/)
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nikolay 2546 days ago
TechCrunch has never been a good source of tech news - even from its Michael Arrington's days. But now it's even worse.
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davidweatherall 2546 days ago
First time coming across techcrunch's "extra crunch" paywall - It's a shame they give you half the article before mentioning it.
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mcintyre1994 2546 days ago
I guess my AdBlocker blocked whatever they were trying to use to show the paywall, so the story just abruptly ended in the middle.
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toby- 2546 days ago
Same. I use uBlock Origin, and the article just fades out in the centre...

Seeing as the other comments mention this website hijacking the back button and other nasties, I don't think I'm going to whitelist this site in uBlock to test, even temporarily.

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drcongo 2546 days ago
Interesting side-note for anyone seeing a paywall, if you set Safari to only ever use reader mode on techcrunch URLs it appears to bypass that completely.
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amanzi 2546 days ago
Got a few paragraphs in before finding out it's behind a paywall that's only accessible from a few countries.
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sidcool 2546 days ago
Paywall alert. The article does not mention till very late that it's paywalled.
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fs2 2546 days ago
What a horrible site, it tries to hijack the back button, full screen cookie warning and uBlock has over a dozen items blocked.
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tchalla 2546 days ago
It's so bad that I have stopped reading TechCrunch articles. The options for GDPR consent are excruciatingly painful to choose and takes a large time to even get to the appropriate point.
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the_duke 2546 days ago
https://outline.com/KhBGXC
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wikibob 2544 days ago
This does not have the full story, only the free preview text.
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the_duke 2546 days ago
Not only that, the GDPR settings take what is seemingly an infinite amount of clicks to actually see the options, and then you can't even properly opt out.

That was enough for me to skip this one.

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kolla 2546 days ago
Techcrunch links should be banned imo..
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drcongo 2546 days ago
You are not alone.
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Kiro 2546 days ago
Why?
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JustSomeNobody 2546 days ago
Well for one they hijack browser behavior. Their site is a train wreck of “me too” JavaScript development.
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