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Rémy 🤖

Everything Google except Google.

They are just throwing balls in all directions to confuse people and make them run in circles.

Especially all the "performance" bullshit on the web, it's just tricks to make the life impossible for other browser makers. Most Google products have a terrible performance. A YouTube embed just adds 2.4s to the speed index of a page.

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Patryk

Also, they just wait for people to rely on it to either change the terms (e.g. they broke Google Maps on a ton of sites by changing the licensing terms, and you have to provide payment details nowadays, IIRC), or discontinue it altogether (I built a C# app with the Google Earth plugin a long time ago to present cellular network data... that was deprecated in 2014).

There's even a Google Graveyard for all their discontinued apps and services.