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They moved from platform A to platform B.
by ape4 9mo ago
They moved from platform A to platform B.
- petcat 9mo agoAnd platform B is basically a worse version of everything than platform A. I admire the motivation though
- ranguna 9mo agoCare to elaborate?
- stanmancan 9mo ago“Worse” is fully dependant on what you’re looking to get out of a product. I consider anything Google/Meta to be about as bad as it gets because I disagree with their business practices and value my privacy.
- wiseowise 9mo ago“Worse” has a defined meaning and they’re right. Proton stuff doesn’t hold a candle to the level of polish of Google.
- cromka 9mo agoSo that definition does not cover "privacy"? Where does one look up the definition of "worse" you're referring to?
- avh02 9mo agoah yes, the polish that keeps begging you to give them your address for your "own safety" the polish that can't even delete your entire spam folder half the time the polish that asks you to verify you own your own email address via email if you want to add an alias to send an email from your own domain (e.g: if you have wildcard inbox and want to reply from one of the addresses you used) the same polish that gives you no results if you search "one" and the email actually contains "oneword" - you know, search, the thing google is known for. such amazing polish.
- Shorel 9mo agoTheir level of “polish” extends to dangerous, unreliable levels of automation. For anything enterprise related, I would avoid Google and their automated account bans without the possibility of contacting a human tech-support agent like the plague. You pay for a SaaS solution to remove worries to your day-to-day, not to add more things to worry about.
- bigiain 9mo agoThey moved from platform USA/Surveillance-Capitalism to platform non-USA/Privacy. That's a big deal to some of us. Especially important it the demonstration that your privacy which Google et al, are so insistent on monetizing, does not mean they are charging you less for the same services that other companies can charge when you are paying only with your money, not your privacy as well.
- mrits 9mo agoI'd rather Google have my data than the EU
- bigiain 9mo agoThat's a choice. But it's not everyone's choice. And with <waves hands wildly around>, the non-USA choice is rapidly becoming more popular - at least among the people I know and talk to outside the US.
- mrits 9mo agoEU has always and always will be moving away from US tech
- bigiain 9mo agoFWIW, my perspective is from Australia, not EU.
- lostlogin 9mo agoI’d argue the opposite, that the US is moving away from the rest of the ‘free’ world. ‘Free’ meaning not run by dictators.
- mrits 9mo agoDictators typically don't win popular votes legitimately. Dictators typically don't have the courts constantly overruling them. Europeans tend to have very little idea how the US government functions. Trump is able to do what he does simply because the people voted for a congress that supports him.