Google. They had a company motto: “Don’t be evil”. They no longer have. And it shows. They make a browser as well. Pretty much from the beginning you could set which page a browser should open with. Some people called it a ‘home page’. Whole companies got started around that concept of offering people what they might want to see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Changing this ‘home page’ was easy enough. Once you grasped the concept of the URL you just could take that line of text and plug it into a form in the browsers configuration. Simple. Works. What could be wrong? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well: you should go where Google wants you to go. Not where you like to go. So in 2020 you have to look for an extension to change the page that shows up when you open a new browser window. Doable. But you need to really want it to do it. With the result that there are no more ‘home page’ companies to speak of. Demand and supply. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are on the Internet you go where Google wants you to go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That in itself is pretty evil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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