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meta’s charter is to be the “world’s town square”, google / youtube routinely dodges monopoly cases by asserting they're an ads company instead of a search or video company, beyond just collecting a lot of data about users these platforms are designed to captivate a large number of users to farm a large amount of data about
beyond the effect that has on their recommendation algorithms that makes them so much more potent than print or word-of-mouth in terms of “conversions”; it makes them *where* you go to look at / for your interests. the mass of these platforms pulls every single one of us to them, and has so severely neutralized alternatives that every single person active on the social internet is either entirely or primarily “influenced” by the social internet. only *then* are the hypereffective recommendations pointed at us show us stuff that would be a safe bet we’d be inclined towards so (maybe) we buy it
and maybe we do bc what’s the alternative, magazines?

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Stop using Google products!!!! We have come to rely on Google for far too much and many of us are tired of giving every piece of information about ourselves to a company that shows blatant disregard to user privacy. The past few years have marked a massive downward shift in the usability of Google’s products for me, especially with AI integration into everything. Now is the perfect time to get out of their ecosystem for whatever reason — be it for privacy, personal ethics, or just to get a little bit more control over your life. The amount of work you have to do varies depending on the kinds of devices you use. I think the bare minimum you should do is switch to off of Chrome and Google search to Firefox and DuckDuckGo. I’m currently daily driving an iPhone and a Macbook so I can use some of Apple’s software (really just Apple Maps and iCloud) to replace Google apps, although I try to use open source software when I can. For Android users, look into the custom ROMs you can put on your phone and how to degoogle. I just relied on Reddit (r/degoogle) for guidance on that. Free yourself from big techs shackles. It’s become a newfound addiction for me to find software alternatives that give me the most control over my digital life. It does take time though since I have unfortunately integrated myself so deep into some of these ecosystems. Part of making the internet fun again is to stop using the stuff from the companies that are actively ruining it. Make the internet a place for humans and not a place for advertisers.

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“People long for the days of not being bombarded by tailored ads everywhere they scroll,”

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