Privacy and debloating, mostly.
No i hate google as well.
Seriously, Fuk google 😡
No. I’ve met a guy whose google account got banned. It almost ruined his life (primary mail address, access to his Google business site, most of his phone’s functionality, docs, private photos, etc. all gone in an instant). And there was not a single thing he could do about it.
I don’t want to put my life into the hands of a faceless corporation that isolates itself completely from its customers (or should I say, products?) when things go wrong.
Now that Google is looking through all of Google Drive for content for its bots, I’m worried that I’ll be banned for all the porn I’ve written. Which isn’t good because my email address is tied to everything, including my Steam account. That would be thousands of dollars worth of games lost.
- 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
Privacy and I no longer trust Google for anything long term.