Responding to a US court ruling declaring Google’s online advertising monopoly illegal, Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said: “A rights respecting break-up of Google’s monopolistic hold could be an important first step towards an online world that respects human rights. By eroding the dominance of a single corporation and weakening Google’s control over […]
Actively, yes. A big step I encourage everybody to take. Like moving out of your parents’ house for the first time.
Passively - close to impossible. It has, after all, a monopoly on many aspects of the www.
I don’t see it as impossible at all. But it is indeed inconvenient and may even cost some money.
But if it was as straightforward as just changing the TV channel, everyone would have done it already.
Having values and acting on them does cost. It is when we are willing to cope with those costs (financial or/and practical) that we stand our ground. Not when we don’t feel it. In that case it would just be a logical choice.
Well I said “close to”. Are you sure you can use the www without ever connecting to some google server? Ads, analytics, the infamous tagmanger etc.?
Not without going completely off the grid no. But there is a big difference from that, and actively using their services or even paying them money.
Simply privacy tools will anonymize your use of the internet, but actively avoiding the use of any google services, is the first big step