An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion
Who could have imagined that ad tech built with principles such as confusing UIs tricking customers into ad clicks, that fingerprint us and resell our personal info, that punish creators on the web by scraping answers from their sites, that built platforms like amp that diverted traffic away from sites, that’s okay with dragnets getting their customers scooped by the fuzz for being near a crime, that’s alright with censorship in China, that’s not into that “do no evil” garbage [just ask those employees that would publish papers on AI/ML ethics…] would ever have been caught up in something like this?