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IMO:

Any protocol or mechanism written by Google is surely to give it more control over the Internet, hence advertising and hence revenue.

Not only AMP, but HTTP 2, QUIC, DNS over HTTPS are all things that Google wanted to have control over. I certainly hope the free internet moves into Tor and the rest of the dark web, and is certainly not indexable by Google.

Also, stop using Google Chrome if you wish to do the web a favor.

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Android is the worst part of their monopoly. They control everything on the phone down to the hardware.

Mobile desperately needs an "IBM compatible" moment to usher in free use of other operating systems

https://ausdroid.net/2020/10/28/xda-made-a-phone-damn-right-...

Thank you for sharing this :)

The problem is that Google seems to be only one writing good software. If you have used Tizens of mobile vendors or customised Androids they tend to be crap. Google keeps software quality up, forces vendors to roll out patches.

Android itself is open source. The issue is Google play services that provides a lot of functionally that many apps rely on. You can run something like lineage os or graphene os, it works great for basic phone and browser functionality.

Agreed. But I think we should go back to Gopher for content and the old wild west style Internet which wasn't consolidated into silos like now. It's cheap, efficient, understandable and obtuse enough not to be able to leverage people into silos for commercial purposes.

Change is hard but you're right, need to degoogle, degoogle, and degoogle.

>Also, stop using Google Chrome if you wish to do the web a favor.

It's very risky and tricky, but I think it is completely opposite.

Do not use Firefox/DDG or other non-google competitors if you wish to do the web a favor.

edit.

>to do the web a favor (by splitting Google).

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