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al_borland ◴[] No.44545060[source]
Even if bigs exists to work around what Google is doing, that isn’t the right way forward. If people don’t agree with Google move, the only correct course of action is to ditch Chrome (and all Chromium browsers). Hit them where it hurts and take away their monopoly over the future direction of the web.
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autobodie ◴[] No.44546522[source]
>the only correct course of action is to ditch Chrome

History shows mere boycotts to always be abysmal failures one after another. The only few examples of ostensible outcomes were critically meaningless and necessitate zero-friction alternatives, like when bud light was encouraged to spend a bit of its marketing budget differently — wow, really showed them!!

There's no detour for politics.

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worik ◴[] No.44546857[source]
> History shows mere boycotts to always be abysmal failures one after another

The South African apartheid regime was brought down by boycotts.

The Israeli genocide regime will suffer the same fate if there is any justice left in the world.

Boycotts are very powerful. Users boycotting ads is dismantling the surveillance web.

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1. zorked ◴[] No.44548756[source]
It wasn't just boycotts, however and unfortunately. The South African army was defeated militarily by FAPLA-Cuba. There's a reason why Nelson Mandela's first visit as chief of state was to thank Fidel Castro in person.