google has way too much power. its threat to everything

if enough people start doing it might be effective

I would feel like wading through sewer bare footed if I had all javascript enabled by default

no benefit in embarrassing them. Should instead keep taking the money and use it for causes that resist them while trying to maintain secrecy so you can keep it going longer.

what if they obfuscate the javascript?

i can feel it too when I use it. that is why i use it only for trivial things if at all.

i wonder if reddit will eventually ragequit and restrict access to all content in there before trying to sell it off

yep, having that under control of one corporation is unacceptable. Imagine if some corporation owned pyramids or caves full of paintings by first humans to such extent they could grind it all to gravel if they wanted. Right now they are preventing fair use of the content too, by forbidding downloads of the videos.

Google has way too much control anyway, since google account has become too important for many people and getting it suspended would mean catastrophe to such individual.

the problem about replacing youtube is that there is over 10 years worth of videos and history in youtube. Not only do you need new content to appear somewhere else, the old content has to be available too or majority will not even consider alternatives. And if enough people wont even consider them there is no way the alternatives will gain content creators.

Google has us on iron grip with this one and it can most likely ONLY be broken through legislation. It isnt really realistic to even start downloading worthwhile stuff from youtube and putting it elsewhere, though it would be better than nothing.

they will add them if they get enough users

people who react like that are giving them power

I just wonder if the research into its effects is going forward as fast as it can since if there was some serious harmful effect from it it would cost a lot of money to many rich people. They would definitely want to silence anything about it as long as they can just like they did with climate change.

when you dont have arguments that fit with what you want to do, you make up your own.

i wonder if microplastic could affect this. Even if its inert it must do something if enough accumulates in the brain.

the ones who own the social media are the source of so many problems.

this should be good thing but instead it just means any people replaced will have harder time surviving. Our society across the planet is fucking broken if technological advancement means things get worse for people because of it.

anyone believing brave is good for privacy is quite naive

for now and always. medicine is something you dont want to entrust to automation.

Aye, I have looked through this too: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/gmail

Unfortunately every service seems to have something going on that I dont like or they dont have something I want. Maybe I should just be less discerning. It doesnt help that switching is a lot of effort and bother.

I took a look at disroot but i heard about that too that there are some things about it that make it not useable to me, like them storing the mails unencrypted apparently. So that one became not an option.

Proton might be good, but after everything i have heard about that too i fear it might develop more problems later which would just have me switch again.

Tuta might be good, but I have heard about that one too that they like sending ads about their services you cant opt out so that kind of attitude doesn’t sit well with me. Not even google does that. That also has be worrying they might start enshittifying the service at some point and maybe make the free version so awful i’d have to switch again.

Many others can’t be used for free at all, which is quite important thing for service this crucial. I wish eu itself would create some email service instead of having to rely on corporations that might change their mind about anything the moment it becomes more profitable to them. Though that one would probably be very austere and definitely not have aliases as option… Why must everything it related be so annoying nowdays.

Kmail on your list seems decent. I cant seem to find a way to make account for it, only to get the client for managing other accounts unless i’m misunderstanding something.

I dont even mind this too much yet still I want to switch off from gmail. If google decided to suspend my account for some reason I would be completely fucked. Even if you love google you still should switch off from using their services because there is a chance you might lose access to them in the future if this world goes even more off its rocker.