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I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every time I used google assistant. This is just some of the data and I'm very sure there is even more data they have.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

You do realize that Google is far worse than Apple and Microsoft combined right?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not really although its hard to objectively prove anything

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I see it as good reason to distance myself from all of these mega data harvesting corporations to the best of my ability. Same goes for meta and tiktok. Why bicker about which is worst when they all are varying degrees of terrible?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yup. It's a slow process for me, but honestly the fediverse is proving a great resource for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You know they can suck up Activity Pub and sell that too, right?

The only difference on the fediverse is that all of them can mine the data, instead of just one of them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"ghengis Khan killed more people than Hitler ya know, right?"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As a percentage of population, so did Julius Caesar.

The reality is that Google is entirely dependent on ads and selling your data.

Apple and Microsoft, it's just a happy side gig they can do.

Apple makes its money selling mediocre hardware and software for a premium markup.
Microsoft makes money selling Windows, Office(+Teams) and Azure to business users then from video games, then ad revenue.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh I got your point, but I also reject it. Google is objectively making the internet worse.

There isn't any reasonable comparison to Apple or MS outside of they're all too big and too unregulated.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Well, that's wrong. They all collect data and telemetry on you.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)