Source: OSNews
Article note: Apparently the rot tractably rooted in 2019.
Managed, incredibly, by the same individual who destroyed Yahoo's search business.
These emails — which I encourage you to look up — tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money. This is what I mean when I talk about the Rot Economy — the illogical, product-destroying mindset that turns the products you love into torturous, frustrating quasi-tools that require you to fight the company’s intentions to get the service you want.
↫ Edward Zitron
Quite the read.