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by cameronbrown 2514 days ago
Maybe it has, but I still believe in the long run it will do us more harm than good. We were starting to see a massive push to shift away from FAANG, but GDPR has just made those incumbents far stronger. They roadblocked the free market.
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passivepinetree 2514 days ago
Can you offer any sources for your assertions? In my observation, we were seeing the exact opposite of

> We were starting to see a massive push to shift away from FAANG

In my experience we were/still are seeing ever-greater consolidation towards Google/Facebook services. As an example, authentication/login with Google and Facebook is becoming the default on many web services, excluding users who may have deleted or never acquired such an account.

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cameronbrown 2514 days ago
Grassroots efforts everywhere, massive media pushes on the issue of privacy, monopolisation (still debatable imo) and ethics (Read: Amazon warehouse worker treatment), content creators shifting away from the ad model to donations (this could seriously damage YouTube in the long run), increasing use of adblockers, et al - these are just a few small things that really will set the wheels in motion against FAANG, though Apple and Microsoft are fairly safe because of their hardware business.

I don't think FAANG is going away anytime soon but the seeds are there. I'd rather these companies sort out their bad side than throw away all the work they've done.

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