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> I assume that you use a free service from Google/Facebook/Microsoft? So you must not care about surveillance capitalism either. At least not care enough. Thi
by piva00 3y ago
> I assume that you use a free service from Google/Facebook/Microsoft? So you must not care about surveillance capitalism either. At least not care enough.
This happens exactly because there is no competition and hence antitrust is needed. I don't want to be using services from Google/Facebook/Microsoft but there's no competition and then I end up using their services even when trying to avoid it as most as possible...
If the prices for services would go up without surveillance capitalism so be it, that's the real price, I want to choose to pay for it, not be coerced into giving them my data for their "free" services. I don't have that option right now, nor anyone else, why are you against freedom of choice?
- aurareturn 3y agoDid you subscribe to Neeva? It was a search engine developed by an ex Google exec. It had no ads, no tracking. It required a subscription to use. Most people who used it said the search results were great. It shut down because no one wanted to pay for it.
- piva00 3y agoYes, I did. And I subscribe to Kagi right now (since Nov/2022) after Neeva, and will keep trying to find paid search solutions if Kagi ever goes belly up.
- aurareturn 3y agoGreat. So there are plenty of choices, both paid and free. Why did you say there's no competition?
- piva00 3y ago[flagged]
- dang 3y agoPlease don't cross into personal attack and please avoid tit-for-tat spats on HN, regardless of how bad someone's comments are or you feel they are. We're trying for just the opposite here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- aurareturn 3y ago[flagged]
- dang 3y agoPlease don't cross into personal attack and please avoid tit-for-tat spats on HN, regardless of how bad someone's comments are or you feel they are. We're trying for just the opposite here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.