DeGoogle Yourself

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google is not and never was your friend, it is a dictator tool: Degoogle (i.redd.it)

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[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think I heard that Trump did it because he thinks it gets him around some Biden era rule that he can’t reverse that bans oil drilling in parts of the “Gulf of Mexico.” It’s really stupid. Exxon and Chevron have both “acknowledged” the name change.

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Oh that makes sense. Like when muskrat tried to get out of Twitter suis because the name changed.