Nah

Oh good we've gone full circle, back to Google Chat.

I feel like this isn't even the first time we've gone full circle on Google's messaging products.

I think gchat always worked at least inside gmail.

That transitioned over to Hangouts in 2013, and the final GChat app (Windows) stopped working 2 years ago.

Well, the context of working within a company is different. Especially if you rely on the money you're making.

It depends on the company but I would say the thing about Washington and this article makes this point well is that there are a significant number of people actively trying to prevent you from doing anything big because they disagree with your goal. In a company, that's less often the case, although I have seen it at larger places.

Ahahahahahahahahahahaha.

If there's a piece of art missing from the world. Make it yourself OK. Just because someone makes something a certain way, doesn't mean they are invalidating your world view. It's up to you to contribute.

Seeing analytics built into AMP makes me laugh. Does that not go against producing the most enjoyable user experience possible?

No because you can have both at the same time? When was the last time you noticed there was analytics happening on the page you were on?

Say in the YouTube app you perform a search for a song. The results come back very quickly and the first result is what you want so you tap it. An ad starts to play. Except its not an ad. Its a video from the advertised spot above your search results - wait a minute you didn't click that. So you go back and realize, it loads 1 second after your search results and pushes them downwards, so your tap ends up on the advertisement that wasn't even rendered yet. Hm.

That might drive short term revenue but would drive down their CPM/CPC rates and user engagement longer term. I don't think Google's culture is conducive to playing those sorts of tricks.

Maybe they don't do it on purpose, maybe they A/B test their way into a black hole of emergent anti-patterns.

Is it safe to assume then that WhatsApp is not secure? Unless their data has been subpoena'd as well?

WhatsApp does store metadata in plaintext which makes it susceptible to law enforcement or 3rd parties. The contents of the messages are still end-to-end encrypted; that being said WhatsApp does default to backing up chats in the cloud and those could be subpoenaed by a government.

.. and how easy to frame someone... just keep sending them some messages until they block you.

in the eyes of LE... they have metadata that you spoke with suspected individual :)

And presumably you have a record of those same chats revealing the content was, "I'm not interested in participating in your conspiracy to commit fraud, stop talking to me."

If you meant to imply they could abuse this capability to get a warrant, I'll be concerned about it when they have any trouble getting warrants.