No longer loving Google
Like any anti-Google post lately, this one has been reflexively upvoted, but if you look at his reasons for not loving Google, they're pretty thin.  The Kenyan episode was obviously one rogue branch with insufficient oversight; as soon as the guys in Mountain View found out what was going on, they stopped it, and with a minimum of the sort of corporate doublespeak you'd expect from most big companies.  The changes to privacy policies are the sort of thing hackers love to gripe about, but don't actually matter much.  (How many HN readers are going to stop using Google because of them, for example?)  All it really boils down to is that he's mad because his friend got cut off by Adsense.  And it is uncool the way Google just blows people off like that, but it's not new.  They've always been that way.  So if you didn't hate Google 5 years ago, this post offers no reason to hate them now.