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Google memes itself with an admission of spying on customers via a new ad on reddit! (i.imgur.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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 πŸ–•Google! Your corporate capitalism greed gets another πŸ–•! Oh, and before I forget, πŸ–•too reddit.

Edit: removed mention of a certain country

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are they trying to relate themselves to the cyberpunk corps? Who tf greenlit this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I know right. Like wtf.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Cyberpunk 2077's expansion, Phantom Liberty, is a spy story. It's nothing to do with Google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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.)