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Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive
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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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Google is stealing the cumulative work of OSS contributors.
That's been Google's MO since always. They called it crowd sourcing first. Have people take photos and do reviews, then gate it behind a login. Digest the whole internet into an LLM, then steal their traffic (before that it was AMP).