DeGoogle Yourself

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A community for those that would like to get away from Google.

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Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. (old.reddit.com)

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It would be nice if FTC or someone would sue them for anticompetitive behavior.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And, you know, broke them up into many smaller companies.

[–] stellargmite 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder to what extent this will help, in the case of YouTube? Its so dominant of that market. Is it purely fiscal or also technical?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It probably would help, as Google couldn’t connect their advertising services that easily with YouTube, and both parties would have to be more independent.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Youtube is a money pit. If it had to split from Google, they will need to up monitization pronto or shut down. While I do want Google broken like Bane cracking Batman, there will be casualities. Too many parts of our internet infrastructure exist via subsidization and we use them like utilities. It is going to be messy out there if the FTC succeeds.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

There are two US antitrust cases against Google right now:

U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC (2020) (in trial; list of many documents)
U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC (2023) (Complaint PDF)

The first is related to things like paying to be the default search engine on iPhone, Firefox, etc. The second is related to ad tech. Neither really directly addresses the issues that average people have with Google's behavior though, so keep filing complaints!

[–] LEDZeppelin -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Small government has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Wow, small government has enough time off from banning books and limiting rights to enter the chat?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure I follow.