Unsurprising level of arrogance from Google. They are a monopoly.
I am currently reading through Google’s SRE book and there’s a similar arrogance to it.
It should be read as “here’s a bunch of practices that we can get away with because we are a monopoly & our end users are mostly non-paying/our real users are companies running ads”.
So many practices in that book would get me and my entire team fired it’s hilarious.
There US government has changed our treatment of monopolies over the last 60 years such that we allow those that lower costs, so most of our current tech behemoths are able to continue... they are “free”.
I am currently reading through Google’s SRE book and there’s a similar arrogance to it. It should be read as “here’s a bunch of practices that we can get away with because we are a monopoly & our end users are mostly non-paying/our real users are companies running ads”.
So many practices in that book would get me and my entire team fired it’s hilarious.
There US government has changed our treatment of monopolies over the last 60 years such that we allow those that lower costs, so most of our current tech behemoths are able to continue... they are “free”.