[siren2026]

I pray for Google to completely fail the pivot to AI. We don't need another surveillance capitalism company using AI to make us even dumber and more addicted to screens.

I so hope that Google goes down. (And I pray the same for Facebook and a couple others).

[bitpush]

Huh? Why are you railing against Google? Because of YouTube? How's Google Search making you addicted to screens.

At this rate, you'll hate Apple for making iPhones so damn good, or Starlink for giving really good internet access.

You line of thinking is - gosh, these companies are providing an excellent service, and I hate them for that?

[siren2026]

The incentive for those Adtech is to keep you hooked as long as possible so they can sell you more ads, and making you lose your only real currency in life: time.

The incentive for Apple or Microsoft is to make a good product that you will gladly pay for. This is very different.

A good restaurant makes an excellent product bit it doesn't mean that I will spend 5 hours there.

[abenga]

I use Google products. Between YouTube premium and uBlock origin, I don't really see any ads at all.

[pixelbro]

Google Analytics has >80% market share. Most of the websites you visit are helping them build a profile of everything you do on the internet with the goal of selling targeted advertisement. That is their business, it's what pays for everything else they do. I think that is what is meant by surveillance capitalism.

[bitpush]

So?

Every iPhone that people buy gives direct money to Apple, centralizing their power. This means, they get to dictate what apps can / cannot run on the device.

So what? Nobody is forcing anyone to buy iPhones. Similarly, nobody is forcing anyone to install Google Analytics, or go to that website.

[siren2026]

Nobody is forcing people to do Heroin or Cocaine. We should start giving it for free to people in the street. Everyone can then decide if they want to take it or not. Oh yes and once you are hooked we should definitely never keep the dealer accountable. It's the users who always decides to use it! They are the ones to blame, never the giga corporation making money on your back!

That surely would work very very well in society. Literally the same thing is happening with Google, Facebook, TikTok etc.

You probably work for bigtech and your salary depends on people losing their braincells so I don't expect you to suddenly get some ethics and understand all of this.