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by nullindividual 924 days ago
The motivations are/were different, though. Google is doing it to prop up the ads business and prevent user control over ads. It is one thing to never give a specific ability, but once people use it for 10+ years, yeah of course they're going to be upset.

When people see restriction as "greed", I understand why the companies are being treated differently.