{"id":227721,"date":"2017-09-05T12:13:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T10:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=227721"},"modified":"2017-09-05T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T10:15:12","slug":"dont-be-evil-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/227721-dont-be-evil-google.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Don\u2019t be evil, Google&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Vivaldi Technologies, <a href=\"https:\/\/vivaldi.com\/blog\/google-return-to-not-being-evil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>said in a blog post<\/strong><\/a> it is time for Google to return to not being evil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA monopoly both in search and advertising, Google, unfortunately, shows that they are not able to resist the misuse of power,\u201d said von Tetzchner.<\/p>\n<p>He said the company is hurting the Opera browser and has moved away from working with\u00a0the Mozilla foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also introduced new services such as Google Docs. These services were great, gained quick popularity, but also exposed the darker side of Google.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only were these services made to be incompatible with Opera, but also encouraged users to switch their browsers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Von Tetzchner brought this up with Google founder Sergey Brin, but it was in vain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor millions of Opera users to access these services, we had to hide our browser\u2019s identity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The situation is no different with the new Vivaldi browser, based on Chromium &#8211; the open-source project led by Google.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still have to hide our identity when visiting services such as Google Docs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said matters then hit a new low after their Google AdWords campaigns were suspended without warning.<\/p>\n<p>This happened after he criticised Google and Facebook for collecting and aggregating users&#8217; personal information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am saddened by this makeover of a geeky, positive company into the bully they are in 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/227465-from-google-to-alphabet-to-xxvi.html\">From Google, to Alphabet, to XXVI<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Vivaldi Technologies, said it is time for Google to return to not being evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":227723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[167,29742,29740],"class_list":["post-227721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-google","tag-jon-von-tetzchner","tag-vivaldi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227839,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227721\/revisions\/227839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}