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STOP USING GOOGLE
as much as I would really like that, that’s a catch-all statement that is not realistic. Unfortunately google has its claws in enterprises, universities and organizations all over the world, across so many domains.
I don’t believe “stop using” is good enough, as it seems only a very small minority realistically could.
This needs to be paired with proper legislation, like others have said, from EU as an example.
If you have friends/family with Google employees, please raise this issue up with them. This also needs to come internally as well, in addition to top-down processes from regulation.
I agree and I also agree with the YouTuber named Louis Rossman. He said that majority people- regular 9-5s/ normies dont care about this. They will only care if it starts to affect them personally until then goodluck asking them to stop using google products.
TLDR: We are royally fucked.
I think there will be two webs if this goes through.
One corporate web filled with surveillance, ads, forced use of approved operating systems and software, no ad blockers etc. This is the one all people who don't care will use.
Then you will have another web where servers do not implement this shit. You are free to use any operating system, plugins, etc. The servers will be run by individuals. It's the corporate free web that many of us actually want. It will have stuff like Lemmy and Mastadon, and probably some kind of a web search since the main search engines will all not be here I assume. New software technologies will evolve here.
As long as they don't put this shit on router and network level, it's possible to escape it by not using the ordinary web. But ofc we will have to use it to some degree at work, probably.
Nerds who are aware of this ignoring Google doesn't make a difference.
Make noise about them instead. Bring up articles about who they actually are and what they are trying to do.
But sure, also stop using them if you are still using that shit. I don't, there are tons of alternatives.