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>>jakobd+(OP)
Google seems to be escalating the speed of its efforts to restrict its user base to the completely non-technical, but Apple and Facebook already own that market.

It also sounds like they're promoting yet another way to make "the internet" slower, more bloated, and have greater impediments to usage.

>>BLKNSL+I6
I have never understood why Google has remained the esteemed vendor for a subset of technical users.

They lost me more than a decade ago when they hoovered clear text passwords from their wifi scanning and blamed it on a single engineer.

>>doctor+Uh
Are you referring to Google Maps automobiles connecting to open WiFi networks? Because to be fair, those networks were wide open, and they were being advertised.

I don't see how advertising an open WiFi network is much different from advertising an open house. In both cases you should expect visitors.

>>dumpst+Lt
What nonsense. Open wifi was basically the norm for public hotspots at the time, POP was not encrypted, nor was most HTTP traffic.

We didn’t stand a chance.