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In a place without access to US apps and online services, how would you use the Internet? (piefed.social)

submitted 6 days ago by Libb@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Imagine there is no YT, no Twitter/X, no Facebook, no Netflix, no Amazon, no Apple, no Google to to search the Web, no chatGPT. Imagine there is no TikTok either (even though it’s not US). Just imagine there is no ‘giant’ tech from anywhere owning any app or service that millions if not billions of people are willing to use.

A world without any of those giant (US) tech companies and services that many of us take for granted.

In that world, what would you use the Internet for? How would you use it? And how much time do you think you would spend online, compared to now?

(my own answer in the comments)

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[–] jdr8@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

US tech is a big pile of garbage.

All of it is to make you addicted, to track you, to influence you, to collect all sort of intel about you, and then use that against you. And they will serve you ads as the cherry on top.

For me they can all disappear and be gone. There are plenty of activities (internet or otherwise) that can be done without that pile of shit.

I have Proton with custom domain as email service, I have my own encrypted backup in an European VPS, have my own private cloud also in European VPS.

Don’t need US garbage.