content: FWIW I think people go way too far down into the rabbit hole in terms of Google going against its don't be evil mantra. They are a huge company at this point. They have 60,000 employees. Think about that. If you hired one employee a day - every single - day, it'd take you more than 164 years to hire that many employees. There are so many people doing so many different things that it's absolutely impossible to maintain a homogeneous front. And each of this 60,000 employees probably wants to climb the ladder there and all have different ideas about what it's going to take. Remember, for instance when Google banned 8chan from their search results? It was back a week later and somebody, if not fired, was certainly reprimanded over that. I think Chrome went to crap when they banned youtube downloaders and then banned non-store plugins on top of it. But that's a move by some individual or individuals in one tiny segment of an enormous company at this point. And they probably think trying to coerce users to use youtube more is good for google and thus good for their careers. But I strongly doubt at this point people like Sergey Brin had anything whatsoever to do with the decision. They're jamming hard down the automation and AI path and that is already an 8 day a week interest. Let's not even forget that all the political crap they got involved in was sparked by Microsoft trying to use their political influence to have the FTC work as an attack dog against Google, and so Google responded by starting to buy their own politicians out of protection. Heck imagine all the legal pressure organizations like the MPAA, RIAA, etc have applied against Google. In leaked emails they referred to themselves as David in a David vs Goliath battle with Google being Goliath /rolleyes.  Anyhow, yeah. In my opinion Google is still trying to do well in a world that generally rewards companies the most when they do go 'evil.'