Come Into My Parlour Said The Spider To The Fly

https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2019/08/22/what-causes-heart-disease-part-64-not-changing-your-mind/

Come into my parlour said the spider to the fly...

The model is to make an offer that cant be refused - like free sweets, or information etc.

And in Google's case a very welcome lack of clutter fro something simply functional. Grow the user base that then grows the advertising base that also grows the tracking trends and profile data resource. Perhaps from the outset or soon after the seedling had established itself, GovCorps moves in.

The temptation to govCorps is far too great not to seek control, and the fear that the others will get one up on you if you don't get in first drives a reckless and blind.

The recent iOS gives a clue where a number of apparently separate loopholes were all called on to serve a malware data grab upon visiting an specified website. Once they have the profile it is believed they have enough of a 'signature' to trace without direct hacking.

I go along with Tolkien that corrupted power never really shares - but only allies against common enemy - and so the instabilities go up within the upper echelons as the common enemy is rendered impotent (in its frame).

There is nothing new about honeytraps or any number of other traps and ruses to trick others into giving power and wealth and life away. Eating bankster toxic debt, or eating corporate toxic guilt. The initial rush is of making a good 'saving' investment. By the time the penny drops - if it ever does - there is no way out. Hence ANYTHING that can induce people to effectively sign off to ACT NOW! regardless how absurd or pathetic, because once invested in the scheme, the only believed 'way out' is to support the mandate everyone else into the scheme.

As with GovCorps, a state of emergency assigned overriding power to the executive. In The US it has never been rescinded afaik - and they have long had a shadow GovCorps set up to run  as the emergency takeover.

Where will conformty and compliance to deceits lead us? It cannot deliver us from evil - but in the first instance Google famously adopted 'do no evil' - hey we're the Good Guys! - but they only had to set up the facility through which evil could be done while claiming to champion freedom.

It isn't the rank and file who adopt betrayal as a standard of care - but they effectively carry it out.