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Originally Posted by toddos
I don't understand why people ever think these online petitions work. They don't. People have been doing them in one form or another for probably the past 15 or more years, yet I can't point to a single one that has ever worked. This one isn't going to work, either.
So go ahead, sign the petition. Make your voice "heard". Google's not going to reverse direction.
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Toddos, it's because
1) It makes people feel good. They're at least doing something.
2) It gets their voice heard.
3) Sometimes it works. Example: Netflix rolling back on their changes.
People don't equate it as 'No petition has ever worked'. They equate it as - Making your voice heard works sometimes. A petition is a way to get your voice heard.
Google is doing a lot of damage to itself by cutting off services one by one. We used the Google weather API as an option in one of our Apps and by cutting that off they affected users who liked to Get Google Weather.
Plus they did it without any notice at all.
They've also been making a lot of changes in other APIs over the years. All very randomly.
Since they don't charge they can get away with all this random ending of services and APIs.
But it's not good for people who use the services.