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Circle jerk or not, Google is bad, and there's no reason why we shouldn't talk about that fact. Doesn't really matter if tons of people use Google products with whatever level of happiness they have.

Google is the perpetrator of serious privacy abuses, and we should rightly be skeptical any time they write about improving people's privacy online.

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Reasonable discussion of this would be fine. 90% of comments being snarky and adding absolutely nothing to the topic is not.

I see your point, it's the low value posts that are the problem, which is lazy non-non-nerds not actually helping to explain why bad.

Because the blog post itself is also snarky and adds absolutely nothing to the topic either. The biggest tracking company in the world is talking about privacy controls, how else we are supposed to take that other than sarcasm?

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