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Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday.

In a memo sent to all employees on Wednesday, Chris Rackow, Google’s head of global security, said that “behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it.”

He also warned that the company would take more action if needed: “The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behavior — up to and including termination.”

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[–] Jamil@lemm.ee 36 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Looking for more ideas how to boycott Google.

No longer using Chrome No longer using google search.

Somehow get off Gmail? Android gapps? Delete reviews?

[–] Gluten6970@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Proton suite of apps have 1:1 replacements for the entire Gsuite. Some things are locked behind a subscription (email is fully free), so if you're not into that there's NextCloud if you can/want to self-host. Tuta is also a decent Gmail replacement. As for Gapps, there isn't really any good replacements; MicroG breaks a lot of things and sandboxed google play services is the only other alternative (which is only available on GrapheneOS afaik).

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Proton suite of apps have 1:1 replacements for the entire Gsuite

That's just not true, they don't have office applications or video chat. I wish they did though. Also, their storage is pretty expensive.

Their email is pretty good though, and they have a decent VPN service as well.

[–] Gluten6970@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

they don’t have office applications or video chat

Oh right, true. I forget Google has those.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Google Sheets is the last thing really holding my back from abandoning Google. It's just so convenient, and I'm more comfortable with it than LibreOffice. I like that I can edit things on my phone, which I haven't found an alternative for.

[–] Gluten6970@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

OnlyOffice

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Does that support something like the GOOGLEFINANCE API, or at least some kind of scripting where I could add it? I really like looking up stock quotes.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

There's FOSS apps from fdroid, fairemail or protonmail or something of the sort, CalyxOS or GrapheneOS (ironically targets the Pixel series primarily, though they sometimes sell these at a loss around the holiday season).

[+] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world -12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Unpopular opinion but boycotting Google doesn't work.

Instead, get real inside the house.

Be such a great Contributor to Google Maps.
Be a manager of a team.
Work on critical systems.

Then casually start breaking shit. Woops, didn't mean to add all this spam to Google maps. Didn't mean to cancel another service. Didn't mean to make search shittyer.

And if you do it correctly, you'll get paid AND nobody will be the wiser since they're already doing all those things.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Poor dude doesn't know google already did this themselves by killing their project teams and bringing a team of summer interns every year to decrease the cloud cost of each app.

They don't have to worry because they already own the market on all these apps so any competitor can be bought out or is doomed to fail.

That way they can spend all their allocated budget on new ventures like Gemini.

For example Google Maps has sucked total ******* **** for a whole ass decade now, and the people who made Android Auto have a special place for them in FOSS hell.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Poor dude doesn't know google already did this themselves

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

LOL