Google has grown to be the largest and most powerful organization on the planet, overseeing the bulk of human interaction and knowledge. Some weak-minded fools will try to pressure you to write them on Gmail or use docs. Here’s 9 dangers of this that you can reply:
Clearweb: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/googledangers/
Tor Browser Onion: http://privacypkybrxebcjicfhgwsb3coatqechwnc5xow4udxwa6jemylmyd.onion/googledangers/
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These issues fall into a few categories:
- Coordination with government/deep state (USA and others). This is inherent with any dominant company or near-monopoly. Privacy-oriented decentralized solutions are needed.
- Over-reliance on a single provider, made easy by “one stop shop” convenience. The onus is really on the user to be aware of, avoid, and use alternatives/backups, although it’s hard for non-techy Grandma to do this. We need more awareness of password managers and encrypted vaults and easy-to-use solutions.
- Snooping on data/emails and advertising data mining. This is due to Google’s business model. There are alternative approaches.
- Woke & neoliberal propaganda; censorship and biased search results. This is partly due to 1) and also the demographics of Google employees and the current zeitgeist.
While non-commercial p2p tech like Lemmy can help, I think the real alternatives to the surveillance society will come with standardized fungible internet (micro)payments as a foundation of decentralized business models. XMR can play a key role here.