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  • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
    25·
    8 months ago

    Amen. This was what stopped me from paying Google anything. Canceled premium, moved off drive, off Gmail. It’s unethical to give them money or watch their ads. The company needs to fail.

    • intrepid@lemmy.ca
      7·
      8 months ago

      They’re too big to fail. Any amount of fine anyone can slap on them is just peanuts for them. They would rather break the law and use part of the gains to battle it out in court and push their opponents to bankruptcy. They have so much money that they can’t help but spend it on subjugating the rule of law.

      They have to be broken up. Broken up into a hundred different companies and spread around the world with restrictions on interacting with each other.

      • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        8 months ago

        I agree. Even though they’re just going to reconglomerate like Terminator 2/AT&T, we need to keep smashing them before they ruin it all.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    22·
    8 months ago

    This has been posted many times already, that’s why its not being so upvoted now. But yeah, it will destroy the internet and put the control over what devices are allowed in the hands of current big tech mafia.

    They can make sure you are not using Linux, that you have specific plugins disabled or enabled, etc. It removes the user choice over computer and browser choice we have today when visiting the websites with WEI enabled.

    All Google needs to do is to give WEI sites a high search engine ranking, saying they are more secure, and all big web sites will enable it.

    • 🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.websiteEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      They’ve been trash phones since the 4. My wife and i had the 3s and they were great phones.

      My wife has been through both the 6 and 7 now and is constantly having issues with the hardware and some minor issues with the software. Phones overheating and shutting off just from browsing the web, poor battery life, screen completely dying, apps like spotify and facebook just not loading or crashing, the phone freezing up and not accepting any screen or button input, the phone calling 911 by itself.

      I didn’t hear great things about the 5 either. But it seems like their marketing department knows what it’s doing because the 8 sounds like it’s getting rave reviews yet again.

      I’m hoping fairphone brings their new phone to the US.