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Those articles have been proven wrong numerous times, but even if they weren’t, that has nothing to do with OP who is claiming that Google controls those companies prices.

Dude, I have a pi-hole, I block ads on every device in addition to the pi-hole. When I’m not at home I route by traffic through my home pi-hole. I know how ads work. I’ve even added ads to websites and used Google AdSense myself.

What they said in the OP is categorically false. Google does not control other companies shop prices. They simply sell a spot to companies to match a profile. They do not control pricing. They do not sell your data. They sell a spot that matches a companies targeting profile. If Google sold your data they would lose their biggest cash cow because other ad companies would buy it and decrease Google’s market share. What you are seeing is Google’s Adsense script running on people’s websites. Google controls that data, not the website.

What an insane take.

If you are at home you can run the vpn on your router.

They don’t handle exercise very well. They slip right out of your ear and aren’t waterproof.

I saw a Quiznos yesterday. I too thought it had gone out of business

I honestly think it’s just because their lawyers work through other stuff first. They’ll get to it eventually

I know it’s being overly recommended in here, but kagi pretty much gives you exactly what you want. I’ve had very few times it’s been unable to give me my search in the first few results. Others swear by SearXNG

Apple Maps is fantastic for navigation, but it doesn’t have enough locations on it. I use Gmaps for searching locations and apple for navigating.

Lemmy isn’t social media. If you’re defining forums as social media then literally and comment section on any website, including blogs and news sites somehow become social media. I don’t know how people started thinking forums are social media but it’s just plain incorrect.

the problem with the person you're arguing with is that they clearly value property more than the human. Who cares if a business gets destroyed? Well in america you don't have the support structures to help that business recover from that, since insurance will try their damn hardest to not cover it, and the government isn't going to help. So the person you're arguing with is arguing from a completely different position than you. You're arguing "why are you using to force to stop protests" and they're arguing "property might be destroyed, so you have to stop that".

I’ve seen that on one windows machine with a weird network sharing issue.