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Nanook @lemm.ee Google is not an IT company. It’s an advertising company. Surprised Pikachu, it blocks ad blockers.
236 5 Replyzarkanian @sh.itjust.works
It's been an ad company for a long time, though, and blocking ad blockers is new.
32 0 ReplyJcbAzPx @lemmy.world Because they are at the end of their growth phase and have entered their squeeze until dead phase.
16 0 Replyripcord @lemmy.world
Yes, but enshittification doesn't happen all at once. And this is a textbook example of the actual meaning of enshittification.
10 0 ReplyNanook @lemm.ee 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.
8 0 ReplyJimBarbecue @lemmy.ml 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.
3 0 ReplyCarbonBasedNPU @lemm.ee 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.
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