Sometimes I get a feeling that the hivemind of HN is critical of anything that is not associated google. I could be wrong as I am a fairly new user. But that's just what I have observed in last few weeks.
I don't see what Google has to do with this. Google gets roasted just as well as any other company around here. I've seen several articles get upvoted about google+ being a ghost town, and other critical articles.
Just try googling site:news.ycombinator.com google
From the first page I see:
6 discussions that are basically neutral
1 positive (Google puts Japan quake tsunami warning on their search page)
1 mix of positive and negative (people arguing both positions) (Goodbye, Google App Engine)
2 negative (Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results, Google to announce "new programming language for structured web programming" )
I've never noticed a leaning towards favoring Google here. If you were arguing that YC funded companies get preferential treatment then you might have a case but I don't think your "I get a feeling that the hivemind of HN is critical of anything that is not associated google" is correct at all.
It's getting to the point with Google that I'm half-considering firewalling my day-to-day browser from my "real" Google account, and adblocking Google out of existence except when referred to by Google sites itself. I already block their analytics etc. whenever I can.
If the Google+ Like button appeared on anywhere near as many sites as Facebook, I'd be concerned about Google too.
I'm kind of surprised NoScript doesn't have an option of disabling scripts on a site-by-site basis. Ergo, if I have two tabs open, Google+ and some other page containing a Google+ Like button, I should be able to enable Google scripts on only the Google+ page. As it stands, when a script from a domain is enabled, it is enabled for any and all tabs you have open. I think that behavior can be improved.
In the meantime, you can use the RequestPolicy add-on in order to block cross-domain requests to G+ in your other tabs. In this case, NoScript won't even be needed because the script won't be loaded at all.
Just try googling site:news.ycombinator.com google
From the first page I see:
6 discussions that are basically neutral
1 positive (Google puts Japan quake tsunami warning on their search page)
1 mix of positive and negative (people arguing both positions) (Goodbye, Google App Engine)
2 negative (Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results, Google to announce "new programming language for structured web programming" )
I've never noticed a leaning towards favoring Google here. If you were arguing that YC funded companies get preferential treatment then you might have a case but I don't think your "I get a feeling that the hivemind of HN is critical of anything that is not associated google" is correct at all.