Ardens

I feel good, that I have never depended on YT… I don’t pay them, I don’t watch ads, and I use other services too, and own my films and music… It’s nice - especially when reading posts like this.

Can you see theirs?

Then give me access to everything, your bank account, your criminal records, your medical records, your digital life, your worklife, and let me record everything you do, everywhere…

Well, ACC is Apple, so go ogg onstead… ;-)

So you think they are monopolies… Good - that’s what they are.

So, Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Adobe and so forth, is not monopolies?

So, do enlighten me, beside the fact that you are obviously addicted to the smartphone, how will your life be worse without privacy?

PS. Does anyone chase something for the sake of something else? That sounded a little silly…

I don’t agree. Most people I know, just don’t know how it should be different…

“Any business has necessary maintenance costs”… Sure, but not every firm pays to manipulate and bribe politicians, to keep a monopoly.

But the frustration among people are also growing, and that should be used/channeled to make a change.

Until they don’t… and please don’t call then normies, when they really are manipulated…

You don’t spend money on something that you don’t get profit from. That’s just plain logic. They know, if they don’t keep spending money here, some politician would end their monopoly.

How it’s possible to stop using google or apple? By doing it…

I believe it depends more on people-power, than on their wealth. That’s why they spend so much money on lobbying - it’s a testament to how scared they are.

I guess I’m a feminist, but I don’t really call myself a feminist. I call myself a humanist, maybe even an environmentalist, because I believe that all humans, and animals, and the environment should have rights, and should be protected against greedy, scared and powerhungry (sick) individuals.

It’s to do the grass root movement, and get enough to demand it, for a provider to feel the need to expand their customer base that way…

Well, then there’s a market for someone to crack…

You can stop using Google and Apple… It’s that simple. But it seems that you, like many other, want their cake and eat it too…

Thanks for that pessimistic comment.

Is that not a good reason, if you are trying to help people, and competitors likely would damage that mission? There’s a thousand possible reasons, and I really wonder why you can’t imagine any of them…