i don’t want to offend anyone, but some open source/privacy enthusiasts dislike google, but why?? google has made chromium, android, etc and most of the things they do are open source, and not only that, they also support creative commons media or public domain. i know the privacy concernes they may have, but they would never do anything bad to you. i love google personally because of their commitment to open source software.
Because they are an advertising company.
With all that been said here, they also killed xmpp with hangout, so they’re not friendly to Foss at all.
They did also kill hangouts… and pretty much every other messaging platform they’ve ever created, sometimes just for kicks. It might be incompetence as opposed to anything malicious there.