It’s a well-known fact that Google spies on users, which isn’t anything new. However, the fact that they are now using this as a reference in a marketing meme is insulting.

Google is now making jokes at customers expense, using memes for promotional ads on Reddit, and saying that they don’t care about you because they know people will still buy their ad-platform spyware products.

Well, I say 🖕Google! Your corporate capitalism greed gets another 🖕! Oh, and before I forget, 🖕too reddit.

Edit: removed mention of a certain country

  • random65837@lemmy.world
    815·
    1 year ago

    However, the fact that they are now using this as a reference in a marketing meme is insulting.

    Google is now making jokes at customers expense,

    Google sucks but they’re not doing either of those. You’re missing the point and using privacy minded thinking to misunderstand.

    Are you not familiar with the whole “I spy” thing? Ie: they see something you don’t see, they know something you don’t know?

    I assume you’re not in the US and not familiar with that?

    • 404@lemmy.zip
      335·
      1 year ago

      Question still stands: who tf greenlit this? No chance they don’t know the other connotations

      • random65837@lemmy.world
        242·
        1 year ago

        I highly doubt they’re worried about less than the 1% not seeing the obvious meaning of what they said. They’re marketing to the masses, which would very much know and pick up on the “I spy” thing.

        • ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          53·
          1 year ago

          That just expands the question: do they not know about other countries?

          Many of us have certain connotations with google, and while we know the game in our native language, it’s not the first thing we think about when thinking “Google says: I spy”.

          • JungleJim@sh.itjust.works
            62·
            1 year ago

            Probably why they published it in English and not your native language so you wouldn’t be confused and think they meant it that way. Too bad somebody will always go the extra step to be offended.

          • random65837@lemmy.world
            85·
            1 year ago

            Sorry, I disagree, I don’t make the assumption that they’re considering a statistically insignificant group of people that hate them, or possibly countless other countries when using a well know saying in their marketing.

            • ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              31·
              1 year ago

              Are you assuming that Google, which, as far as I’m aware, is an international company providing service to a multilingual userbase, has less than 1% non-native English speaking users?

              I mean, I don’t care much how Google advertises itself, even companies I do like sometimes make an unlucky promotion and that’s fine, but I do find the arguments in this comment thread to make some wild assumptions.

              • JungleJim@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                1 year ago

                What seems like a wild assumption is that an ad in one language would be designed with what another language might think of the ad in mind. Why would a Chinese person care about a Mexican ad for Coca-Cola? You’ve found something to enjoy being upset at.

              • random65837@lemmy.world
                14·
                1 year ago

                Are you assuming that Google, which, as far as I’m aware, is an international company providing service to a multilingual userbase, has less than 1% non-native English speaking users?

                I’m assuming nothing, nor did I ever say their English speaking data sources are less than 1%. That would be the privacy crowd that would be the ones to take simple marketing using a well known term and go into paranoia about it.

                However, if I were to assume anything, it would be that an ad in English, would be geard towards English speakers, not others.

    • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      I thought it sounded really out of place still, but I guess it’s a reference to Cyberpunk’s expansion being stealth/spy based.

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I am familiar with that and don’t believe your take is accurate. When asking this question, it’s followed with a description of the thing you spy.

      “I spy… do you?” is the text of the ad and the text following that doesn’t make it make any more sense either, “Game more than you thought you could.”

    • Denatured@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I assume you’re not in the US and not familiar with that?

      No, other side of the world. No, not familiar with that.