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> I have a Google Fi > Fuck carrier surveillance. How about Google surveillance? Google is one of those companies that I find insidiously evil. They have exce
by systemvoltage 5y ago
> I have a Google Fi
> Fuck carrier surveillance.
How about Google surveillance? Google is one of those companies that I find insidiously evil. They have excellent PR and never get hammered on HN, but they own you, your soul and know more about you than you do. Google is completely inside you. Completely outside you.
Far more scarier than Verizon. Although, fuck Verizon too.
- judge2020 5y agoGoogle doesn’t surveil app usage or network traffic via their network services (eg. Fi and Fiber).
- sixothree 5y agoDoesn't mean they don't pay for that same data.
- systemvoltage 5y agoIt's a switch away. I'd rather not share the same ISP as my family photos storage provider or health records (Verily) vendor. I am actively trying to do de-Google my life. It's surprisingly difficult.
- sneak 5y agoYou can't actually browse a functional web without loading js from Google. Trying to de-Google your life means giving up web browsing very nearly in full.
- Speenah 5y agoNot true, google isn't the only CDN. And you can even just have your own local one https://decentraleyes.org/ https://decentraleyes.org/
- t-3 5y agoHow are you sure of that? Is there actually a way to be sure of that?
- sneak 5y agoT-Mobile does, and they run the physical network the Fi traffic runs over, which makes this whole "Google is/isn't as bad as T-Mobile on privacy" debate a red herring.
- modeless 5y ago> They have excellent PR and never get hammered on HN You must be reading a different HN than I am.
- systemvoltage 5y agoFB > Amazon > Twitter > Apple > Google > Tiktok. In that order, in terms of the spanking I see on HN.