Amid worker and regulator complaints, Google is facing a turning point
www.fastcompany.com
A tsunami of internal and external forces is threatening the supremacy of the online search giant and bringing us closer to a “de-Googled” world.
  • Tredkip ツ@lemmy.ml
    201·
    3 years ago

    > Google Search -> DuckDuckGo There are more private solutions, such as SearX.

    > YouTube -> Vimeo You can’t be serious…

    > Google Maps -> Apple Maps No.

    > Android -> iOS Is this post just an Apple shill, or something? Why?

    > Google Chrome -> Safari Okay, it IS an Apple shilling post…

    > Google Chrome -> Brave/Vivaldi Oh God… are these REALLY private solutions? SERIOUSLY??

    > Google Hangouts -> FaceTime/Microsoft Teams I give up.

    “spreadprivacy.com”? Where is the privacy part? All they are doing is make people drop Google for other corporate solutions! Doing so we’re just giving our data to other corporations instead of Google! Is this really the solution? Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix… all of them should be avoided as much as possible.

    Do you want private solutions? OBLITERATE. ANY. KIND. OF. CORPORATE. SOFTWARE.

    I’m sorry if I sound rude or aggressive, but this post is bullshit and it’s just spreading misinformation. It doesn’t provide any help, the opposite, it’s just promoting the use of more coporate software instead of FLOSS and decentralized solutions made by the community.

    • jazzfes@lemmy.ml
      7·
      3 years ago

      Do you want private solutions? OBLITERATE. ANY. KIND. OF. CORPORATE. SOFTWARE.

      I love that!

      It should be obvious to anyone working for any sizable corporate. It needs to be communicated to all.

    • Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml
      5·
      3 years ago

      Android is already open source though. I don’t see how going to the closed-sourced iOS is any kind of improvement.

    • j0ta@lemmy.mlOP
      16·
      3 years ago

      The big problem isn’t who knows how to use software for privacy but who doesn’t so leaving google is already a big start

      • jazzfes@lemmy.ml
        4·
        3 years ago

        Yes, but why would you point to Apple at all?

        It’s not that Firefox is too arcane compared to Safari. Apple Maps is just aweful in terms of estimating ETAs and on top of that made by another coorporate that will extract value from any data point they have.

        I mean in general:

        Do you want private solutions? OBLITERATE. ANY. KIND. OF. CORPORATE. SOFTWARE.

        is trivially true.

        So let’s just make that point clear!