My own rant on this topic from 2013, twelve years ago, about Google, on Google+: <https://web.archive.org/web/20190115034109/https://plus.google.com/1040926560

My own rant on this topic from 2013, twelve years ago, about Google, on Google+: <https://web.archive.org/web/20190115034109/https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/ayk2DF43eF1 https://web.archive.org/web/20190115034109/https://plus.goog...> (And yes, I archived all my G+ content, though it's one hell of a bastard to search through it.) That posted to HN on a day where for a moment three of HN's front-page stories were my own content (direct submissions or links to). HN discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745525> The following day saw a slew of Google-critical stories: <https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2013-11-17 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2013-11-17> And yeah, it's not got better. I fight back (uBlock origin element remover, custom stylesheets, entire rewrites of news sites (<https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/114356066459105122 https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/114356066459105122>, working on a further revision now), and almost entirely abandoning the mobile comms device space (no smartphone, a largely de-Googled and anonymised e-ink tablet with no no subscription-based apps installed). I still strongly believe that this ends poorly.