And if it's not Google it's Microsoft. Which is, and I can't believe I'm saying this, the lesser of two evils at this point. There's a 2003 me staring through a time travel portal absolutely aghast that 2023 me is saying something like this.
Microsoft has always been an apex predator, like a lion or maybe a hippo. It can end you in a single bite, but at least you know what you’re dealing with.
Google is more like a malaria carrying species of mosquito. Little bites that you barely notice, but in aggregate are actually much more dangerous.
I know the metaphor is a bit stretched but even in the late 90’d it was clear what Microsoft did. Google has gone from “don’t be evil” to “this is the definition of open source” to …
True, but they are widely known as being one of the most dangerous animals in Africa; number 11 on this list [0]. So you (probably) know what you’re dealing with.
Of course my point was that the mosquito, whose bite is far less “annoying”, is actually #1.
All big tech companies that store non-e2ee data are equally evil, because they all by law must make that data available to government spies without a warrant. (They know this, and they still collect the data.)
These same government spies run an international network of torture centers.
