For quite a few years now Google has been having dubious and problematic behaviors. It’s been spying on users who opted out of data collection1, secretly having contracts with the ICE2 and the IDF3, to rigging the ads business with Meta to favor each other against other ad sellers4, and so much more, not counting the enshittification5 its products have gone through.
It’s in our best interest to move away from their services, but they’re entrenched in so many parts of our daily lives that it feels a herculean task to do so. If you use any of these, you are using a Google product or within Google’s control:
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