It's fascinating to me how thoroughly Google has managed to poison the well for their services. Many of the people aren't even swayed by the connection to a revenue-generating service. I understand! I wouldn't use this unless it was much, much easier than using letsencrypt - even in a GCP ecosystem. I don't trust them any more than anyone else.
> It's fascinating to me how thoroughly Google has managed to poison the well for their services.
What's fascinating to me is the apparent irrationality, from people who otherwise tend to pride themselves on being rational.
I can understand people saying they'll never deal with Google again because they killed their favorite free product or whatever. That's fair. But the attempt to justify that position as some sort of rational risk calculation, taking the actual facts of the matter into account, is misguided.
In some cases this is due to a lack of info and disinterest in correcting that, but many other cases just seem to be emotion masquerading as a thought process.
Of course it's emotional, all decisions are to some degree emotional.
And I would suggest that if they'd just killed reader, then OK, stuff like that happens. But Google has killed a Lot of things. Probably for good reason. But they get a reputation for being "flighty" when it comes to new things.
Sure it's emotional, but that reputation comes into my thinking when I make product choices. I'll use HERE maps over Google maps etc. And I'm not terribly inclined to make their stuff part of my critical work flow.
So sure I'll Google search and YouTube all day long. But I'll use AWS or Azure over GCP. 90% because I can get someone on the phone. 9% because I wonder when Google will decide to kill GCP. And 1% because I don't trust the Google AI not ti just terminate my account with no recourse.
