Reddit's community shows how Google has come to dominate almost every aspect of how we use the internet.
The person, apparently a college student, writes that they have replaced Gmail with Yahoo Mail ; Chrome with the open source web browser Pale Moon; and Google search with privacy-focused DuckDuckGo.
"Google have designed a system that f**ks over anyone not COMPLETELY operating within it. And that's just bullshit," the person fumed."I'm feeling on the brink of just sucking it up and using Google services. I desperately don't want to, but I also don't want for my life to just be ridiculously hard - or harder than it should be - just as a matter of principle.""My work doesn't require Google use...
Being able to find alternatives to Google's ad-funded services gives consumers power. If they don't like the ads or any other feature on YouTube, they could switch to an alternative and take their precious attention and data with them. But if there is no viable alternative to YouTube, consumers are locked into Google's ecosystem, and Google's terms.
"These privacy harms are directly caused by their business models, which increasingly rely on the availability of users' data, and can impose excessive collection of data on people who have become 'captive users' to their providers, given their lack of genuine choice."
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