• Nanook@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Google is not an IT company. It’s an advertising company. Surprised Pikachu, it blocks ad blockers.

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        Because they are at the end of their growth phase and have entered their squeeze until dead phase.

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        Yes, but enshittification doesn’t happen all at once. And this is a textbook example of the actual meaning of enshittification.

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        Yeah it’s always been an ad company. And you are correct, blocking apps is new, welcome to the last stage in the ad-blocking arms race. Glad I degoogled my digital life a decade ago.

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          Hey, can you tell a little bit about your stack, what apps and services do you use? Also on phone? I guess in a decade you could work that out pretty well.

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            Your options for phones come down to linux phones (which I haven’t heard great things about) and pixels ironically.

            Apple phones make a similar number of calls to google services as android phones simply because of how much google runs.