Everyone seems to be missing an obvious detail- there was a related and even more dangerous piece of legislation reintroduced recently. It’s known as the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), and that would have immense impacts on Google’s (specifically, YouTube’s) operations.
This is an example of them trying to claim the other bill isn’t needed, because they can self-regulate. You’ll notice how this also purports to protect kids, but in a way that is much easier and cheaper for Google to implement.
This is the year of enshittification, isn’t it? Damn every company has pushed the pedal to the metal on it
It definitely feels like a transition period for the whole Internet. Tech platforms finally reached their maximum user potential and scale, so now it’s time to turn the screws.
They all think we need them, so now we figure out if they’re right.
All companies want open standards and regulation of the big players when they’re small. All companies want high barriers to entry and regulation of the small players when they’re big.
All companies want what is best for them. In that matter, they differ very little from people.
Regulatory capture seems about on par for Google these days. I suppose I’ll be switching back to OnePlus for Android devices; that’ll be about it for Google stuff in my home.
Suddenly, I miss the old days of Android. I suppose it’s back to CyanogenMod or whatever it is these days
I used to give Google money for services (Drive and YouTube), but I’ve already stopped doing that because of their evil ways. This just hammers it home that much more.
Edit: The shitty part is what a cool company it used to be. And to watch it destroy itself like this is just sad.
Might get there. Right now I just have external SSH access (key only) to get to the files. I also need an offsite, so it’s all sent to a remote server with rsync and gocryptfs. I only have about 90 GB of stuff on there right now; I don’t do any media serving.
This is my biggest complaint. They were the best way to access the sum of all human knowledge. Now I NEVER find things relevant to my search, just things that can be sold to me. Things like the “-“ character no longer work. I still get the excluded term in top results. It garbage now and everyone at google is to blame not just the executives.
