They have been doing it for years already. All that has changed is Google got a little more honest.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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Right... well it's about "organizing the World Knowledge" ... but if for that one has to do literally anything in order to accumulate more wealth, that takes priority.
I'm genuinely concern for anybody who would still have a modicum of trust with corporations the size of Google.
Of course they'll do anything to increase "shareholder value", legal or not, moral or not. That's the entire point of a corporation driven by the stock market.
A pledge is only as valid as the trustworthiness of the entity that agrees to it. Google is completely, utterly untrustworthy at this point so nothing has really changed by them dropping a pledge.