• bouncing@partizle.com
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    2 years ago

    It wouldn’t be a post-Google world, it would be a world of “baby Googles” all trying to find a path to profitability, most likely by invading your privacy even more or doing other unsavory things. Google’s bad for privacy, but if broken up into a long tail of tiny businesses, it could actually be much worse.

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      2 years ago

      Keyword could. Monopolies do know one any good. See Twitter and Reddit. I would rather roll the dice, then stick with Monopolies

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      2 years ago

      Those businesses would quickly die and be outcompeted, as competition mostly doesn’t exist now in those spaces because of Google.

      We’d all be better if the internet was not owned by an ad company.