Hello everybody,
What is the company and corporation that is the object of your hate? What did/do they do to get that spot for you?
Mine is Facebook/Meta for their egregious data collection policies, psychological manipulation of its users, and more recently, them not seeding content.
Thanks in advance for your time! Have a good one!
I’m really starting to dislike Google recently. The amount of things that simply don’t work after their Gemini integration has me fuming. I have a pixel tablet I mainly use as a smart hub, Me: “Hey Google, what’s the weather like today”, Assistant: “I don’t know”. What do you mean you don’t know? That’s the one question you ever get asked.
Google switches an old system for something new, releases it half-baked, and never parodies the features.
The only thing I use assistant for on my phone, is asking for navigation. Eg, while driving somewhere I haven’t been before, “hey google, navigate to <address>”.
Before Gemini: Opens google maps, finds the address, starts navigation, and works perfectly.
After Gemini: “Hmm, I don’t know how to ‘navigate to’. Let me google that for you. Here are your search results for ‘navigate to <address>’, you’re welcome”.
Lemmy seems to have a very strong voice for pushing people towards Linux… But I don’t hear nearly enough about ditching Google and other mega-corps. I started Degoogling long ago and have been really happy with the result. There are lots of alternatives and there’s no reason to stick with Google the way people do. Your description of half-baked shitty products is their hallmark. Their bloody search doesn’t even work well anymore and that’s what the whole business got launched on.
Lemmy please strongly considering De-googling. It’s quite easy for almost all services.
As a teacher, I also strongly reccomend degoogling. Google flagrantly ignores FERPA. The private info of students is safer with Microsoft of all things, but traditional Windows laptop can’t compete with the cheap-ass Chromebook which means schools are quickly switching to the Google ecosystem.
Holy, don’t get me started on ChromeOS.
I have seen more guides for ditching Google on Lemmy in the past few months than I’ve seen in the past decade across all the internet. I guarantee you you can find hundreds of posts here with people detailing how to do it or their own experience doing so. The problem isn’t Lemmy, it’s the communities you are subscribed to.
I reverted back to the old Google Assistant and now it can set alarms by voice command again.
It’s absolutely ridiculous how they keep breaking what is working.
I think Google is neck and neck with Microsoft these days. Which is crazy given the past 20 years.
I much prefer Microsoft to Google.
I hate MS in some markets, but don’t mind it as much in others. Can’t say the same about Google.
GrapheneOS runs on the pixel tablet