Anti-Google-user rant
This is for anyone using Google things, their search, their email, youtube, android, all that crap. Stop using that right now!
Google is a company so large that it's value is more than a trillion (1 000 000 000 000) USD. That should be enough information for you to understand that you should stay far away from their disgusting "products".
No matter where you stand politically, the conclusion is the same: stay away from google.
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Anti-Google-user rant
If you lean left, then it should be obvious that you should not allow such a huge for-profit company to have power over you, and over society around you.
If you lean right, then htink about the size of the company and its monopoly situation. The company is so large that it has long ago passed the point where there was meaningful competition in a marketplace. A this point it just stays in power due to its monopoly.
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Anti-Google-user rant
If you like democracy and human rights, then you must stay away from google because of the huge power that company has, power that is outside the reach of any democratic institution. Google's power is not used to benefit people, instead it is used to increase Google's profits and power even further.
Oh and if you are a google user, then don't blame anyone else -- you are the problem! You need to change.
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Anti-Google-user rant
If you share links to youtube videos, stop doing that right now! There are alternatives, see #PeerTube
If you use gmail, switch to another service right now!
If you use an android phone, throw that away and help build #MobileLinux instead. As long as you are using android, you are helping google preserve its dangerous near-monopoly.
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Anti-Google-user rant
@eliasr I agree with you on all points.
Regarding android, I'm curious: what do you think about the Replicant project? On the one hand it's supposed to bring freedom, but on the other hand would its existence help android itself stay strong? Would it help g**gle in any way?
Anti-Google-user rant
@cosmin about Replicant and other "de-googled" android variants, while I respect the effort to try to make something free from google, I think the resources and effort spent on those would be better spent building something that is meant to be free from the beginning, instead of taking what google made and trying to strip away the bad parts.
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Anti-Google-user rant
@cosmin For those projects, it is still google that makes the important decisions about future versions and so on. Google leads and they follow. They cannot really say that they are independent from google.
I think the FOSS world should build what we want according to our needs, where freedom and power for the user is the core principle. We should not need to care about what google thinks, and whatever google's business decisions are, that should be irrelevant for us.
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