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by hu3 2126 days ago
I will keep using Google products for as long as they keep being great.

Life's too short for extreme measures. You gotta pick your fights.

What I did stop using was anything Apple related and that fight was easy to pick. Their repair-hostile-by-design hardware actually harm the environment. Plus it proved trivial to replace their crap with superior tech.
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AtomicPlayboy 2126 days ago
Whether their products are good or not is beside the point.

They do everything they can to have your PII and this is something people should care about.

Things like 'accidentally' collecting your BSSIDs for Google Maps or providing Google Fonts not because they want a more beautiful Web, but to have a tracker on your site.

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hu3 2126 days ago
None of that affects me negatively, they can have all my info for all I care.

Plus they make our lives easier on a level that was unthinkable not long ago with Best in Slot free products like youtube, maps, search, email, open source browser and accessible smartphones with open source OS.

My only complain to Alphabet is that they like to toy with us by keeping Mozilla alive on a feeding tube. That's just cruel, I expected some mercy.

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Scapeghost 2125 days ago
Your brazen fanboying for Google is really painful to watch.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hu3

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hu3 2125 days ago
First, ad hominem attacks are discouraged by guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

And for a good reason. I could, for example, take a quick glance at your profile and see that you spread misinformation about VS Code 7 hours ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24251487) but what good would it bring? I'd rather argue about the topic at hand.

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Now resuming the discussion about using Google services anyway because life's too short to bother:

That's just how 7 billion people think.

Out of bubbles, there's much more to worry about on a daily basis than what some web site knows about me.

Our privilege blinds us and Maslow's Pyramid gets all sorts of messed up around these parts just because we can.

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