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I don't know whether you didn't read the article or are just one of these simpletons incapable of holding an opinion more nuanced that "good or evil", but they are suing the owners.

So in the old days, he would've had a paper map and would have driven off the bridge the same way.

Paper maps don't talk to you and tell you which way to go, do they?

I seriously can't decide whether you're some Google shill or you've just given your brain the day off.

I'd love to hear how you think that would work.

Let's get this straight.

Google publishes maps that are inaccurate. They were informed of the inaccuracies multiple times, yet did nothing. Subsequently, someone died following their incorrect maps that they couldn't be bothered to fix — despite the fact that a fucked bridge is clearly potentially super dangerous.

And you think this has "literally nothing" to do with Google?

Are you a shareholder or something? That's some hardcore corporate arse-kissing, imo.

First of all, these protocols don't allow for backdoors

Doesn't matter, tbh. The entire problem of giving governments (or whoever) a backdoor is that there's no way to make it only available to the "good guys".

If Apple and co did put in backdoors to satisfy the Brits, the first thing every other government on earth would do is legislate itself access to the backdoor.

With or without a proper backdoor, this law breaks the tech.

That depends very heavily on what your searching for.

If you're a programmer or similar, like the poster you're replying to appears to be, then you absolutely will find DDG crap compared to Google.

I use DDG as my primary search engine, but if I have a tech question, I usually skip it and go straight to Google.

Thing is, Google is also (still) just better.

I use DDG as my primary search engine, but I find myself repeating searches with Google so often, I wrote a userscript to add a "Search with Google" link to the top of the DDG search results.

Seriously good by any measure, and fantastic for a webapp. Smoother and more native-feeling than a lot of actual native apps.

Hard disagree. Back in its early days, Google was genuinely decent. They competed by building better stuff than everyone else, and that's it.

There was no decent free email and no free maps before Google. You used to have to pay hundreds for decent mapping software.

The good old Web 2.0 days, when companies were falling over themselves to provide free APIs and see what people could do with them.

Google started going to shit when they brought out Android and everybody started trying to build walled gardens, and went full evil when that moral vacuum Pichai took over.

NGL, I'm surprised macOS was even ahead of Linux given Apple's deep-seated, cultural disinterest in gaming.

I hear he's lost a bunch of money. That's a definite positive in my book.

Yeah. It's the mechanism that defines a vaccine, not when it's administered.

It trains you own T-cells to recognise the cancer cells, so it's a vaccine.

The same thing is going on everywhere, tbh.

Right-wing populist arseholes are gaining traction because the political mainstream has just been fucking us all over for decades.