That's capitalism... Always have to be growing profits. Investors don't want stable profits where their dollar won't grow. When growth by improving products cost more than just gouging your current market share, you get enshitification.
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It's absolute insanity. We let Wall Street demand enshitification across the board. We need to take their power away.
A sane market would let a company get to a certain size and market cap and say, "Hey, we're making a lot of money, let's try to stay roughly here unless we have great ideas." Instead, we have this bullshit.
If you're willing to learn a bit of tech self-support :), consider running your own server box with NextCloud -- there are calendar, media player plugins, etc. There are Android and iOS Nextcloud drive clients, a news reader, ...
It's not all quite as slick as Google Photos/Drive and so on, but very very usable.
Another alternative is the Proton suite (Protonmail, ProtonVPN, Proton Calendar, Drive, ...) they do charge a small amount but you get their added security.
I'm willing to pay a small, or at least reasonable-for-the-service, amount; and I just found out about Proton. Thanks for sharing!
Also check out Skiff and CryptPad if you are looking for Google Docs alternatives.
I think I left Google just in the nick of time.
My Google usage has stopped entirely (exept through alt frontends), and I also deleted my Google account. They will continue to promote their needless services, and even shove it down your throats. I wish good luck for us all, since Google will most likely continue to do this, and attempt to enact further restrictions upon the internet.
I can do all that on my computer life easily but have no idea how to drop Google 100% on my phone, without switching to apple and frankly fuck that.
Do you have any tips or can you point me in the direction of resources for having an android smartphone that is functional but not tied to Google behind every curtain?
Now I'm hearing that YouTube is now increasing its price per month for premium by a whopping two bucks, to $13.99. That's as much as Netflix. So I can be ad-free on freakin' YouTube, with contented created basically for them, for the same price as a network that actually takes responsibility for its shows.
To be fair, that $13.99 also includes a Spotify clone ($10.99/month) Should they separate the two and only charge $3 for ad free YouTube? Absolutely.