• TechNom (nobody)
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    611 months ago
    • Lack of privacy
    • Arbitrary cancel culture with no recourse
    • Corruption and bloating of open standards like web
    • Non consensual logins (android, chrome)
    • Sabotage of federated services (email, xmpp)
    • Suggestion of new tracking methods (like FLoC) when old tracking methods (like 3rd party cookies) are phased out
    • Centralization of information flow (eg: AMP)
    • Bait and switch tactics (like YouTube ads)
    • Support for horrible laws (like illegitimate DMCA strikes)
    • Locking down devices (with remote attestation, safetynet api, etc)
    • Geolocking apps unnecessarily
    • Invasive use of credit card information to prove location (why not just use GPS or cell info?)
    • Incompatibility with open standards to achieve user lockins (eg: IMAP, caldav, carddav)
    • Riding the open source wave with projects that don’t behave like one (AOSP, chromium)
    • Untrustworthiness when it comes to long term presence of services