I use Google to find stuff that I read or listened to in the past.

Sometimes I use it to find stuff I wrote.

I understand that they want to force people to switch to HTTPS and to convert their sites to be "mobile friendly."

But these two conversions are never going to happen to posts that were written in 2003. Or 1998. Or before Google even existed.

And if their use is primarily to serve as a record so future researchers can look them up, what purpose is served in reminding me, the author of some of those pages that they are not friendly to Google's mobile browsing experience? Every time I see that message I am reminded that Google is a bully, and rich company whose interests are opposite mine. They are making themselves my enemy, when I would think they might want me to be a friend. They use the term "friendly" in their hostility.

All this on top of the horrible way they treated RSS, without an apology, without any offer to undo the damage they did. I guess they're saying that until you get a government to force us to be responsible our answer is to fuck off.

I used to be fairly libertarian. But when it comes to Google, fuck that. Let's get them under control. And if you work at Google, you might want to explain this to some of your colleagues. How you treat your environment matters. Google grew up in the web, it's a product of the web, it's very bad karma to be so hostile to that which made you possible.