• Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
    26·
    1 year ago

    Amen. This was what stopped me from paying Google anything. Canceled premium, moved off drive, off Gmail. It’s unethical to give them money or watch their ads. The company needs to fail.

    • intrepid@lemmy.ca
      8·
      1 year ago

      They’re too big to fail. Any amount of fine anyone can slap on them is just peanuts for them. They would rather break the law and use part of the gains to battle it out in court and push their opponents to bankruptcy. They have so much money that they can’t help but spend it on subjugating the rule of law.

      They have to be broken up. Broken up into a hundred different companies and spread around the world with restrictions on interacting with each other.

      • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        I agree. Even though they’re just going to reconglomerate like Terminator 2/AT&T, we need to keep smashing them before they ruin it all.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    241·
    1 year ago

    This has been posted many times already, that’s why its not being so upvoted now. But yeah, it will destroy the internet and put the control over what devices are allowed in the hands of current big tech mafia.

    They can make sure you are not using Linux, that you have specific plugins disabled or enabled, etc. It removes the user choice over computer and browser choice we have today when visiting the websites with WEI enabled.

    All Google needs to do is to give WEI sites a high search engine ranking, saying they are more secure, and all big web sites will enable it.

    • 🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.websiteEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      They’ve been trash phones since the 4. My wife and i had the 3s and they were great phones.

      My wife has been through both the 6 and 7 now and is constantly having issues with the hardware and some minor issues with the software. Phones overheating and shutting off just from browsing the web, poor battery life, screen completely dying, apps like spotify and facebook just not loading or crashing, the phone freezing up and not accepting any screen or button input, the phone calling 911 by itself.

      I didn’t hear great things about the 5 either. But it seems like their marketing department knows what it’s doing because the 8 sounds like it’s getting rave reviews yet again.

      I’m hoping fairphone brings their new phone to the US.

      • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        This is a bummer to hear since I have the 4A and it’s out of support. (Google support terms suck, especially since the phone is still going strong.) I was going to buy a used 6 or 7–but that sounds like not a super-great plan. Or maybe… GrapheneOS?

        • 🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.websiteEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I can’t speak to GrapheneOS since I’ve never tried it.

          I will say that my son has the 6a, and I don’t recall him complaining about it. My wife had the 6 from when it came out until the 7 came out and we traded that thing in as fast as we could because of the issues, but the 7 ended up doing the same things.

          I’m still rocking my S21+ from 2ish years ago and it’s going strong. I hate the bloat, but it wasn’t as bad as I heard Samsung can be. I couldn’t tell you anything about the S22 or S23 generations.

          It just seems like smartphone innovation has become stagnant. I’m hoping for the new fairphone due to the repairability. I dont want to buy the fairphone 4 due to it being over 2 years old already. I’ve found that I don’t need some beefy top of the line phone for what I use phones for. In fact, it seems like phones are having issues being actual phones now. In the past year, just trying to make calls has been horrible. I can’t believe how bad it’s gotten. I have so many dropped calls or poor reception, but my phone will show 4+ bars with 5G and will still stream music and do GPS navigation without issue. But make a phone call, nope, the primary function it’s supposed to have, it just says fuck you.