MSFT, GOOG, META should all have been broken up years ago.
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The only one of those three that I use directly is Microsoft.
I have been off meta for well over 10 years, and I was avoiding google since even before that. In my opinion, Google’s stranglehold on web searches is a greater monopoly by far than anything MS, META, and Apple do in their markets.
I only use microsoft when it is inescapable. Basically, in business and for gaming.
Meta and GOOG are advertising companies. Worldwide duopolies. They are basically selling space on billboards. They treat the whole Internet as their own billboard.
They have already destroyed the internet. Like a frog in increasingly heated water nobody has really noticed.
Oh on top of that neither produces anything of real value. Yet they are rich beyond normal comprehension.
Capitalism and the internet didn’t work out too well. It is time to re-think this.
Maybe start by bombing their data centers and exiling their owners to India.