It’s a well-known fact that Google spies on users, which isn’t anything new. However, the fact that they are now using this as a reference in a marketing meme is insulting.

Google is now making jokes at customers expense, using memes for promotional ads on Reddit, and saying that they don’t care about you because they know people will still buy their ad-platform spyware products.

Well, I say 🖕Google! Your corporate capitalism greed gets another 🖕! Oh, and before I forget, 🖕too reddit.

Edit: removed mention of a certain country

  • privacybro@lemmy.ninja
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    1 year ago

    the elites and corps have always done this sort of thing. if you rule over billions of retards wouldn’t you also make fun?

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    1 year ago

    I (charitably) think the fact is that they may also have misunderstood Cyberpunk to be more about hacking than it actually is, and are using “spy” despite a lot of CP2077 not being necessarily about remote hacking cameras at all.

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    1 year ago

    my bet is one of their bots made this and they don’t even know this ad is out in the wild until someone brings it up

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      1 year ago

      Its either this or its not real. I cant believe a human would green light this unless this is their final task before taking a better job.

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    1 year ago

    Ever heard of the game i spy? and with that they are advertising gaming for a Chromebook. This may all just be a coincidence.

    While these tech comapnies have people look at the how users might see phrases like “hey guys.” Not sure how Google thought people wouldn’t do the same to them with this. Chromebook’s don’t sell as well so this is the worst product to do the worst with for marketing, but at the same time maybe they really do think this and think they can get away with this meme because no one is really buying a Chromebook unless it’s like for school work. (although I actually do use my personal Chromebook on the daily i’m in that small minority.)