Oh. Ok.
Why?
Good question. The answer is: for a significant amount of people, politics is emotional - so what makes sense isn't necessarily relevant.
Before welcoming this as good news, be aware that democrats might also start thinking this misinformation is real, and decide to stay home and "not vote for a losing team".
I guess responses like yours is the reason the headline didn't mention the actual party gitlab is in talks with. People just love to have their villain.
Ignore the headline. Read the article. Gitlab is not about to sell to Google. They are about to sell to Datadog.
But they have been partially owned by Google for the past time, and the product has been great.
Google's involvement is only going to lessen, so the only reason to put so much emphasis on that in the headline would be to get those rage clicks.
Typical that the title does mention Google (who currently has a minority stake) but not Datadog, who would become the new owner.
But yeah, I don't foresee a new owner making things better for gitlab.
By that logic every news website is spam, because those also contain ads.
I agree the article is without much merit. But calling it spam because it also appears in a book and it mentions that source, is just diluting the term.
... And he doesn't exist.
This article could do with a Bottom Line Up Front. I got halfway through the page and I still had no idea what problem it was trying to solve by adding new problems.
Looked up her name on Twitter to see what people were saying about this
I'm seriously wondering what your intentions were when you did that.
Aka a junior.
As long as ads and analytics are separate from each other and the rest.