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Huh? Why are you railing against Google? Because of YouTube? How's Google Search making you addicted to screens. At this rate, you'll hate Apple for making iPh

by bitpush 5mo ago

Huh? Why are you railing against Google? Because of YouTube? How's Google Search making you addicted to screens. At this rate, you'll hate Apple for making iPhones so damn good, or Starlink for giving really good internet access. You line of thinking is - gosh, these companies are providing an excellent service, and I hate them for that?

siren2026 5mo ago
The incentive for those Adtech is to keep you hooked as long as possible so they can sell you more ads, and making you lose your only real currency in life: time. The incentive for Apple or Microsoft is to make a good product that you will gladly pay for. This is very different. A good restaurant makes an excellent product bit it doesn't mean that I will spend 5 hours there.
- abenga 5mo ago
  I use Google products. Between YouTube premium and uBlock origin, I don't really see any ads at all.
  - pixelbro 5mo ago
    Google Analytics has >80% market share. Most of the websites you visit are helping them build a profile of everything you do on the internet with the goal of selling targeted advertisement. That is their business, it's what pays for everything else they do. I think that is what is meant by surveillance capitalism.
    - bitpush 5mo ago
      So? Every iPhone that people buy gives direct money to Apple, centralizing their power. This means, they get to dictate what apps can / cannot run on the device. So what? Nobody is forcing anyone to buy iPhones. Similarly, nobody is forcing anyone to install Google Analytics, or go to that website.
      - siren2026 5mo ago
        Nobody is forcing people to do Heroin or Cocaine. We should start giving it for free to people in the street. Everyone can then decide if they want to take it or not. Oh yes and once you are hooked we should definitely never keep the dealer accountable. It's the users who always decides to use it! They are the ones to blame, never the giga corporation making money on your back! That surely would work very very well in society. Literally the same thing is happening with Google, Facebook, TikTok etc. You probably work for bigtech and your salary depends on people losing their braincells so I don't expect you to suddenly get some ethics and understand all of this.
        cindyllm 5mo ago
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        bitpush 5mo ago
        Now do alcohol.
        siren2026 5mo ago
        I think you just proved my point! It's not because it is allowed that those things are good. Google and Facebook are allowed. They are still a net negative on society. The world would be a better place without them.

by bitpush 5mo ago

siren2026 5mo ago

The incentive for those Adtech is to keep you hooked as long as possible so they can sell you more ads, and making you lose your only real currency in life: time. The incentive for Apple or Microsoft is to make a good product that you will gladly pay for. This is very different. A good restaurant makes an excellent product bit it doesn't mean that I will spend 5 hours there.

abenga 5mo ago
I use Google products. Between YouTube premium and uBlock origin, I don't really see any ads at all.
- pixelbro 5mo ago
  Google Analytics has >80% market share. Most of the websites you visit are helping them build a profile of everything you do on the internet with the goal of selling targeted advertisement. That is their business, it's what pays for everything else they do. I think that is what is meant by surveillance capitalism.
  - bitpush 5mo ago
    So? Every iPhone that people buy gives direct money to Apple, centralizing their power. This means, they get to dictate what apps can / cannot run on the device. So what? Nobody is forcing anyone to buy iPhones. Similarly, nobody is forcing anyone to install Google Analytics, or go to that website.
    - siren2026 5mo ago
      Nobody is forcing people to do Heroin or Cocaine. We should start giving it for free to people in the street. Everyone can then decide if they want to take it or not. Oh yes and once you are hooked we should definitely never keep the dealer accountable. It's the users who always decides to use it! They are the ones to blame, never the giga corporation making money on your back! That surely would work very very well in society. Literally the same thing is happening with Google, Facebook, TikTok etc. You probably work for bigtech and your salary depends on people losing their braincells so I don't expect you to suddenly get some ethics and understand all of this.
      - cindyllm 5mo ago
        [dead]
      - bitpush 5mo ago
        Now do alcohol.
        siren2026 5mo ago
        I think you just proved my point! It's not because it is allowed that those things are good. Google and Facebook are allowed. They are still a net negative on society. The world would be a better place without them.