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Google should never be allowed to claim they are acting in the interests of an open web (awful.systems)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by fasterandworse@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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A couple artefacts from my personal pocket of dislike for the company:

Google dot com used table layout components till feb 2022 - something that has been semantically incorrect since forever.

Google's Web.dev, a stealth advertising project disguised as a developer community, has poor accessibility test results—on AXE and it's own Lighthouse test—where developer.mozilla.org scores 100% on Lighthouse and passes with minor issues in AXE tests.

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[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this interesting rant from an ex-googler popped up on my masto feed and feels relevant

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it took working in there for me to understand that this is an ad company, i.e. cons upon cons, and the image they had built was just part of the long con.

Nice rant. And it sux that people would be likely to defend google against very clearly true opinions like that