• Efwis@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Or web site owners that use it will go out of business because people don’t want to change their browsers. The companies will realize their decision was bad when all of a sudden their customers stop coming to their sites.

    Google needs shut down! Or at least go back to being a search engine.

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      1 year ago

      We need some new Anti-Monopoly governments to come into power and take a hatchet and machete to google and carve it up, and learn from the ATT/Ma Bell situation by making it so the richest fragment cant buy up all the remaining fragments after a couple decades and go all T2000 on the situation.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t see that too soon, big companies control the government. Unless that can be stopped, which it won’t, the little guy is going to continue to be screwed in the advancement of capitalism

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      1 year ago

      The effect those people will have on profit margins probably are negligible, given the large amount of people using Google-created web browsers already.

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      1 year ago

      Or someone will somehow create a new web browser or add-on or just another branch of Chromium that fakes out the DRM somehow.

      Like with ReVanced, for example. It’s a modified version of the YouTube app with an adblocker and several other bells and whistles added on (and the ability to remove a lot of Google’s own bells and whistles).

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      I doubt that but website owners that implement it might receive enough death threads to reconsider I guess, it’s the internet after all.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not recommending death threats, but maybe hit them wheee it really hurts. Everyone quit using the internet for a week or two. And I do mean everyone around the world. Hell we survived quite well without the internet until the late 80’s, we have the knowledge, so let’s use it.

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          Oh please. Did you learn nothing from the reddit “protests”?

          the average user doesnt give a fuck until it affects them, personally. And then they’ll blame someone besides the problem for it, and double down and continuing to support bad things.

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            Oh I know it won’t happen. It’s just a pipe dream. But that would be the only way to stop the problem. We, as a society, rely too heavily on the internet. Someone would always have an excuse to be on it

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            1 year ago

            Very true. They bitch about privacy and anonymity but don’t want to be truly proactive about it properly