Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FridaySteve@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Look up Microsoft in the early 90s and how we all got through it.

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  • eve@evenyc.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    tbf, we all got through it by just going to other platforms. now there’s almost no other platforms to go to because big tech either pressures them until they fold, or sell to them and become part of their umbrella as some shill company or they remain independent but still use big tech software to run their backend, so your info ends up going to them anyway.

    i think in the future, everyone will be forced into surveillance by default and those who don’t will have to either pay dearly for privacy or learn how to program their own security. checkout project gideon that’s already getting pitched to the united states government and other governments from israel. it’s literally that show “person of interest” plus

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    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pretty sure they’re talking about antitrust lol

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• eve@evenyc.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s just it. You’re not supposed to live. You’re supposed to be controlled.

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• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Always has been

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