Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.

This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.

This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.

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    1 year ago

    The only active google services I do use are

    • Android and Google Pixel (because fuck Apple lol)
    • Google Play Store (I sometimes use F-Droid)
    • YT

    I replaced my email with my very own domain
    I buy my own storage to host and backup at home.
    What I have from cloud storage is by chance of having Office365 (mainly because Outlook is so much superior for email management. I tried EM-client. It was worse).