this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
459 points (99.4% liked)

Technology

59568 readers
3634 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Is there any company more scummy than Google?

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

All the big ones constantly trade blows for the no 1 spot.

[–] laxe@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Someone needs to compile an annual league table of the scummiest companies and their practices for that year.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Chiquita and Nestlé come to mind. Within tech industry, I'd say Amazon and probably Microsoft are worse as well, and there's probably a ton of potentially even worse companies lurking in the shadows outside the top of the economic food chain.

[–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Id actually say Meta is the scummiest tech company thinking about it now.

[–] oh_@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Adobe sucks pretty hard as well.

[–] VoterFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know man. There's a lot shittier business practices out there than paying to be the default search engine - which is laughably easy to change on any browser. Like marketplaces and services that pay to be exclusive sources of content and then use the fact that they're the only source for most content to force extortionate deals on content creators and enshitify every aspect of the end user experience. Just to name one.

[–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Did you know that paying to be default search engine isn't the only business practice that Google does.

Google has enshitified every single one of its products or deprecated it and then released an inferior replacement.

[–] VoterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Is enshittification the scummiest thing you can think of? While other multinationals are paying for goon squads that kill people in other countries? While banks reorder daily transactions from largest to smallest so they can charge more overdraft fees, literally stealing from poor people? Even if enshittification is literally your biggest problem, you'd have to be living under a rock to think Google's products are the most enshitified of all the garbage out there. You've never heard of anything from Meta? Amazon? Netflix? Microsoft?