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1. except+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-07-26 14:42:57
Wondering what you can do?

First:

- ban Google all together in your personal life. No chrome and no excuses. Stop your bullshit or leave this profession.

- develop with and for firefox and friends only, introduce usability problems for chrome

- employ the same tactics as google.

  -> Bundle firefox with the software you are distributing. 

  -> Like google did, remove the competition altogether from the users device.

  -> make your npm-module or your website slower in chrome

  -> show a popup urging users to download firefox, provide a link.
 Refer to their current chrome as malware.

  -> use as many tricks as you can think of to spoil the well for google. 
     Destroy search results, fill their storage with /dev/random, whatever your imagination leads you too. You keep telling us you are so smart. Show it.
- remember, Google's capital is data. Hit that and the beast will die.

If you are not ready to do this, you are part of the problem. "Maybe later". No, people have warned for years. I wrote that using chrome is "less than smart" years ago, and some people took real offense when I wrote that. If you don't act now and update your projects like I wrote above, you will never do it.

Secondly, tweet, write to tech journalists. But only after you did the above.

Thirdly, Google is evil and they know it. They care only about money and they trust you to find excuses. There are already some people who talk to themselves "Well, I see both sides really". Don't be that one.

Fourthly, I am very worried that the window of opportunity is closing now rapidly. It is late to defend our values, rights and future all by ourselves while all political parties gladly take donations by the millions. I am not an anarchist (nor a libertarian), and I would rather sit on my lazy ass like you. However, the amalgamation of tech oligarchs and ruthless political factions is accelerating. They are happy to trade civil rights for something more tangible. Your legal rights are being eroded one after the other and you might lose the right (or means) to stand up for them.

If things go really wrong, keep in mind that while in theory one could burn the whole thing down, well, yes, a statement in public life would help for publicity. But PR is a hard thing if you don't have money. The easiest steps are outlined above.

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