Google is offering a far more pared-down solution to the court’s ruling that it illegally monopolized search

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, the enemy of my enemy is not my friend. It’s just another asshole.

    Google, over the past few years has notably getting worse. Apps that always worked flawlessly lately started getting buggy. YouTube app on Android now crashes near daily, Gmail is suddenly riddled with bugs… It wasn’t like this.

    Google was a software / tech company that started dabbling in ads to make money. This change toe company to what it is now, an ad company that does a bit of tech on the side.

    Google Chrome is now the new ie6 and though it sucks in different ways from ie6, at the core the problem is the same

    Google and Microsoft are really the same company, it’s just that (for now, still) Google’s software sucks less

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      17 hours ago

      Chrome itself is rated 4.1 in Play Store, while Firefox is rated 4.6. Google Chrome dominance, at this point, is a consequence of monopolistic practices and not user preference. They are now using their predominant position in the browser market to apply ad technologies that their users rightly didn’t ask for, and they don’t like it.

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      23 hours ago

      Have you tried NewPipe? YouTube changed the API a few times, and it broke for a day. Otherwise, it’s excellent. I had trouble with Google Pay lately, which is really frustrating, I reverted to cash. No trouble with Chrome or Gmail on Android.