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It's hard to say google controls your communication. You: 1. Voluntary use their services 2. There are lots of alternatives 3. The switching cost is minimal
by dantheman 3y ago
It's hard to say google controls your communication.
You:
1. Voluntary use their services
2. There are lots of alternatives
3. The switching cost is minimal
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- ocdtrekkie 3y agoThe parent clearly noted they do not use Google services voluntarily, but are required to by their employer and various websites. Which is exactly the reason for antitrust.
- tobylane 3y agoEven if you personally don't use GMail, a considerable amount of personal emails have at least one participant who uses it. Every social person who uses email has some of their communication read by Google. People who like hyperbole will phrase that as all of their communication is data mined and therefore controlled.
- convolvatron 3y agomoreover - as someone who doesn't use gmail - I'm subject to their capricious and unknowable policies about incoming mail. they get to decide if I can actually speak to half the internet.
- littlestymaar 3y agoI have no control on my accointances using gmail, nor than I control the fact that key services only make their website chrome-only and their mobile app available only on the Google play store.
- areoform 3y agoGoogle absolutely controls communication. Two examples, Example 1: GMail. Google uses the mass adoption of GMail as a cudgel. It's no longer possible to independently host email without being marked as spam or rate limited by Google, https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/gmail-independent-email https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/gmail-independent-email Example 2: Google did a good old "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish" on XMPP, https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo...