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Comment by amazingamazing

1 day ago

You’re saying moving on from Google is similar to switching government?

Switching government and deleting google are probably on the same order of magnitude of difficulty for most people.

Have you tried moving on from Google, and preferably not to Apple?

  • Yes, it’s trivial. What are you having difficulty with? There are plenty of threads here on HN about this

    • If you think it's trivial you must not be paying attention. You cannot keep your data from Google. Government websites include google tracking. Google drives past your house to take photos and sniff your wifi traffic. Your employer hands your data over to google. Your doctor hands your data over to google. Your bank hands your data over to google. You can limit how much you actively and voluntarily give them, but you can't free yourself from them entirely and still function in society.

    • Trivial? Ha! Way to say that you never tried it. Either that, or that you don't care for things like push notifications. Yes, most of the things work, but not nearly all of them.

In a way, yes, as google de facto governs and controls much of the internet.