[fazeirony]

i can't wait for the "there's been confusion about what we've done" message to come out. cuz its always us, right? the customer is always wrong in this era of techno-feudalism.

[philipov]

The customer is always wrong because the customer is too small to matter. Google's scale gives them all the power in the relationship, undermining the market's role in forcing them to compromise in negotions. We would need something like consumer unions that can collectively bargain on behalf of customers to offset this power imbalance.

Or, antitrust laws that can break them into smaller units, recognizing that strict monopoly is not the only market failure scenario. That would be good too.

[542354234235]

>consumer unions that can collectively bargain on behalf of customers

I think that is just called "government".

[ensignavenger]

It appears to me that this article, at least the title, is wrong. The update simply adds a local only api that apps can ise, it doesn't do any scanning. And Google sent out a notification that they plan to use this API in an update to Google Chat. Notably, it will not (at least for now) communicate the scan results back to Google.

[dingnuts]

you're not the customer! YOU'RE THE PRODUCT!

[mannykannot]

Indeed, but lip service is grudgingly paid to the notion that we are not, lest we succumb to the delusion that we know what's good for us.