[zerobees]

Right. I have respect for Rene, but going by the "HN quitting manifestos" like this, Google has lost its moral compass at least 50 times at various points in the last 20 years.

The company is constantly changing, but also hasn't changed all that much. It always talked the talk and was eager to tell others how to behave, but was almost never willing to give up any real revenue to do the right thing. The usual justification was that if Google doesn't do it, someone else will (and that someone else is obviously not as moral as Googlers are).

If you're old enough, you might remember that they vocally opposed privacy-violating, disruptive display ads. That was their whole schtick. But that was before they realized there's a lot of money to be made by acquiring Doubleclick.

[neves]

I when they thought it was unethical to disguise an ad as search result.

[mempko]

Why do you have respect for Rene?

[GlacierFox]

He doesn't. People start off with that when they're scared of voicing their actual opinion and it softens whatever they have to say a touch.

[ThunderSizzle]

Like a compliment sandwich or something.