• deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      You’re right, but that’s still a valid concern. Many people are much more ingrained in the Google ecosystem, especially through Android.

      We’re seeing this issue with Microsoft in the buisness space, too.

      And if course we’ve been seeing it with Apple for decades.

      These massive corporations have a great deal of people so ingrained in their interconnected services, it’s next to impossible to convince them to extract themselves.

      This is why the EU regulations focus on “gatekeepers”. Because users will not make the necessary changes in their habits to combat the abhorrent practices in the industry. There is no true free market here. So the solution is to regulate the shit out of these gatekeepers to make them open up and play fair.