this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
36 points (89.1% liked)
Technology
84828 readers
4046 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Google will always try too screw over consumers when they can make even a dime more off of a product. This is not a bug but a feature – for the company.
Consider degoogling. There are a lot of alternatives, albeit with some slight drawbacks. Everyone should consider for themselves whether these drawbacks are bad enough to stay with a company that treats you as the product, not as the customer.
You're preaching to the choir on that one. I mainly use Apple stuff — I feel like, between Apple, Microsoft, and Google, Apple is the least evil. Some disagree. I always liked Macs though, and once GPU prices started going up... I bought one. Pretty good deal if you're willing to give up PC gaming. But I also realise Apple isn't that much better than the others, if they are at all. Linux is the real winner here. If I didn't need a whole new computer, I probably would have switched to Linux.
Of course most people dislike the big tech companies here, but I don’t fully agree. When a comment talks about what Android users deserve not everyone is getting the message yet.
Of course they deserve better, but they will never ever get it, because the system is not for them. I think people still really need to understand that they are considered more a product than a customer.