• @sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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    All companies want open standards and regulation of the big players when they’re small. All companies want high barriers to entry and regulation of the small players when they’re big.

    All companies want what is best for them. In that matter, they differ very little from people.

  • @jherazob@beehaw.org
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    582 years ago

    This is the year of enshittification, isn’t it? Damn every company has pushed the pedal to the metal on it

    • The Doctor
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      62 years ago

      The cat’s out of the bag. Gotta grab everything before folks try to stop them.

    • @tVxUHF@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      52 years ago

      It’s because interest rates went up and the free VC money tap was turned off so all these companies have to actually turn a profit, so they’re squeezing us with every lever they control.

    • @Toribor@corndog.social
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      It definitely feels like a transition period for the whole Internet. Tech platforms finally reached their maximum user potential and scale, so now it’s time to turn the screws.

      They all think we need them, so now we figure out if they’re right.

      • grooving
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        They weren’t. Source: time traveler from the future

  • Beej Jorgensen
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    I used to give Google money for services (Drive and YouTube), but I’ve already stopped doing that because of their evil ways. This just hammers it home that much more.

    Edit: The shitty part is what a cool company it used to be. And to watch it destroy itself like this is just sad.

    • Siddhartha-Aurelius
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      This is my biggest complaint. They were the best way to access the sum of all human knowledge. Now I NEVER find things relevant to my search, just things that can be sold to me. Things like the “-“ character no longer work. I still get the excluded term in top results. It garbage now and everyone at google is to blame not just the executives.

    • DeadGemini
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      NAS + VPN will get you personal cloud storage under your own control. Set up the NAS, configure the firewall to only allow connections from your home network, VPN, and Docker network while blocking everything else, put your files on it, connect back to your home network via VPN to securely access your files from anywhere on earth. Primo security and privacy, and all of this can be done on the NAS itself.

      I use a Synology DS220+, which costs like $300ish. Pick up a couple 10TB hard drives and an 8GB stick of SO-DIMM (laptop) RAM for $20 and you have an entire media server + piracy box + cloud storage + VPN + pihole + DNS + anything your little heart can configure in a form factor roughly the size of a Gamecube

      • Beej Jorgensen
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        Might get there. Right now I just have external SSH access (key only) to get to the files. I also need an offsite, so it’s all sent to a remote server with rsync and gocryptfs. I only have about 90 GB of stuff on there right now; I don’t do any media serving.

        • DeadGemini
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          But you could do some media serving. Take back your life from both Google AND all 263 streaming services all at once! You could even self-host a Lemmy or Mastodon instance and take back control from social media giants while you’re at it! Add in NextCloud and self-hosted Bitwarden, and idk what cloud service you could realistically need at that point, and it’s all yours!

          Just something to think about, comes highly recommended from me. $4-500 startup cost is like 2-3 times what my broke ass is comfortable with, but I have not regretted my purchases for even 1 single day.

          • Beej Jorgensen
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            For sure–I just don’t tend to watch anything more than once. :) Most of my federated identity and offsites are at SDF, which is a solid place with a mission I respect and certainly don’t mind giving $36/year to. Grayjay for stupid vids (if I could just get it to work with FCast…)

  • Computerchairgeneral
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    Honestly, this is about what I expect from Google nowadays. It’s surprising when they manage to live up to the “Don’t be Evil” motto they used to have.

  • Jeremy [Iowa]
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    222 years ago

    Regulatory capture seems about on par for Google these days. I suppose I’ll be switching back to OnePlus for Android devices; that’ll be about it for Google stuff in my home.

      • Jeremy [Iowa]
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        Suddenly, I miss the old days of Android. I suppose it’s back to CyanogenMod or whatever it is these days

          • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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            Direct replacement for Cyanogen would be Lineage. There are dozens of decent ROMs to try though.

            I still opted for iOS in the end. As much shit as Apple pulls, they did 6 year software updates when only flagship Androids got 3 and they aren’t generally trying to dominate the Internet.

            • Siddhartha-Aurelius
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              142 years ago

              Nobody outside a select few know the real dirt inside the proprietary code that Apple puts out. Open source is the only truth that you can see for yourself. Apple is the antithesis of open source.

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                Open source is only as useful as the contributors and reviewers. Finding things after the fact helps noone.

                People need to stop revering open source as the solution to humanity’s problems and treat it as a useful tool, nothing more.

                • sadreality
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                  You are correct it is only a tool, sadly it is the only viable tool tho

                • Siddhartha-Aurelius
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                  You’re right.

                  I like to peruse code and have read a lot of it from the sources that make it available. It’s not always the languages I know but even then I can get the idea of what most of it is doing. There are some code bases that are too big for any one person to fully comprehend. That said, I think the only way for one to be confident in open source is to read it yourself which is a problem for most as coding knowledge is not common combine with the size of some.

                  So it’s always going to be trusting trust for most people. The fact that it is open source and makes available the code for review limits malice to a much greater degree than proprietary ever will.

              • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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                I know, but as a software engineer, I just hate reading through other people’s code and I don’t have time for tinkering anymore. Apple’s ecosystem is convenient for me and that matters more now. Used to care more of course.

              • Siddhartha-Aurelius
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                52 years ago

                Yes and no. Buy a used pixel phone and don’t give google a dime on the new pixel that is not fully supported yet.

              • @BCsven@lemmy.ca
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                12 years ago

                I dont mind giving a company money for a product, then the transaction ends . What i don"t want is to buy a car then have the car sell my daily location to people.

      • @Gsus4@feddit.nl
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        At this point what they learn in business schools is the full bestiary of legal and illegal tricks and scams you can use to extract money from us cattle and contribute as little as possible to the upkeep :(

  • @Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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    132 years ago

    Everyone seems to be missing an obvious detail- there was a related and even more dangerous piece of legislation reintroduced recently. It’s known as the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), and that would have immense impacts on Google’s (specifically, YouTube’s) operations.

    This is an example of them trying to claim the other bill isn’t needed, because they can self-regulate. You’ll notice how this also purports to protect kids, but in a way that is much easier and cheaper for Google to implement.

    • @vriska1@lemm.ee
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      12 years ago

      Its deeply worrying development seeing Google came out with the narrative saying they are against mandated age verification while secretly saying they do support it atleast that what I get from this article.