They're implementing a widely used compression standard created by a developer at a competing company.
Even if Google is the absolute most evil company in the world, they will still make many smaller decisions every year that are just reasonable engineering. If you forget that, you end up going down a conspiracy rabbit hole and losing any ability to understand the world.
Even if Google is the absolute most evil company in the world, they will still make many smaller decisions every year that are just reasonable engineering. If you forget that, you end up going down a conspiracy rabbit hole and losing any ability to understand the world.