@CheeseToastie
Mainly political. While privacy and security are a concern, I'm more focused on stop using products by big corporations, in particularly those with ties to fascist parties and government agencies and I'm very wary of those who try to sell their products as "private and secure FOSS alternatives" while holding similar fascistic ideas.
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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I respect that. What ties do they have to fascist parties and how close are they?
@CheeseToastie
MAGA/The GOP. Google financed Trump's campaign (just like meta, amazon and all that crap).
Ideologically they're pretty close and the latest changes have been in agreement to Trump's policies.
There's the golf if America thing, the fact that they have been eliminating the posibility to report bigotry in Youtube.
It's now that they work for/with three letter agencies, which isn't only a "privacy concern" in the individualistic sense, but also a democracy concern, as these agencies spy and kill activists, orchestrate, train and backup dictatorships, interviene in elections, and more.
There was an issue here a decade ago of so of google prioritising right wing media, even if it it wasn't known at all or if it was known to push fake news.
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privacy and political reasons: google has been firing employees that support palestine for fucks sake
source: The Verge
@CheeseToastie Spending my money in autocratic countries is like buying them the weapons they will point at me to take away my freedom.
Giving my data to them is pretty much the same as they monetize it.
i dont want google profiting by sending my data to the gov whos paying for it with my tax money
I've put together lists of alternatives on this site: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/
That's really helpful thanks
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To me it's about how invasive and all-encompassing Google tries to be, while giving little to no respect to our privacy.
I never explicitly and clearly agreed for a random company to follow me everywhere on the Internet, track me on millions of sites even outside Google itself, and be as reckless with the data as a kid, selling it left and right to whoever might concern. Neither do I think regular people would give such consent if consequences would be clearly explained, and not buried deep into ToS.
No, I do not have much to hide. But even if you don't do anything bad, you don't want a random stranger to constantly look into your windows when you're at home, do you? It's creepy at least. For me, Google is that stranger. And Meta. And Microsoft. And Apple etc.
So, making as little room for them in my life as humanly possible is my goal.
That's an excellent point well made.
Moving away from US based/owned/managed services. But it takes times. Email and photos are the Hardest for me. Email because of all the account integrations and many accounts where you just can't change your email address and photos as it requires all people involved in shared albums to migrate with me.
Moving email is hard indeed.
The easiest way forward is to get your own domain, it's about 10EUR a year, but that doesn't help retroactively.
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My data is my data. Period. Or at least it should be.
Abuse of position as dominant provider of search engine (incl. censorship) and mobile OS.
Labour Practice.
e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google
Similiar reasons apply to Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, PayPal, X and so on since well before Trump & Co.
e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech
Appologies for my aggressive tone. I really hate these companies / their owners and what they are doing to our society, wellbeing, and humanness. It could have turned out so much different, if not for their greed and egoism!