Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.

This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.

This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The only active google services I do use are

    • Android and Google Pixel (because fuck Apple lol)
    • Google Play Store (I sometimes use F-Droid)
    • YT

    I replaced my email with my very own domain
    I buy my own storage to host and backup at home.
    What I have from cloud storage is by chance of having Office365 (mainly because Outlook is so much superior for email management. I tried EM-client. It was worse).