What’s a petition going to do? Is there any evidence that a bunch of people signing a petition is any more effective than a bunch of people just asking?

And their friends will go if all their friends go, and so on. ~Strawberry

Even if it doesn’t actually result in Amazon being broken up, at least it indicates someone is doing something.

Aren’t they just deciding whether or not to do something via the lawsuit rather than actually for sure doing something yet? ~Strawberry

People call on governments to do things all the time, but it’s often just ignored. How do we get governments to actually listen? How do we get this to actually happen? ~Strawberry

Have people not been trying that for years already? How do we know if there’s a good chance that’ll even do anything beyond get tossed in the trash? ~Strawberry

Good luck dealing with DRM though. ~Strawberry

But you can convince advertisers to give you money based on how much engagement the site gets and therefore how much engagement their ads are likely to get. ~Cherri

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It’s not a compatible format with screen readers. I’d say use a site like the Internet Archive maybe? ~Cherri

That’s not necessarily accessible to disabled people who have to use screen readers though. ~Cherri

IIRC its results just aren’t that good? I haven’t tried it, this is just what I’ve heard. Maybe it’s gotten better? ~Cherri

If you’re talking about YaCY, apparently that’s pretty much useless right now from what I’ve heard. ~Cherri

Often citations for fake books or rare print material the AI couldn’t possibly have had access to. ~Cherri

I think it was YaCY, but apparently it’s basically useless for everyday use. ~Cherri

A lot of the time those don’t even work anymore. ~Cherri

I see Google’s review process for apps on the Play Store is as bad as their review process for extensions on the Chrome Web Store. Every couple of months ago, a new batch of malware is found on CWS, and you almost never see that with Firefox’s add-on marketplace, even when accounting for Firefox-based browsers having a much smaller userbase. And I’ve noticed that when it does happen, Mozilla is much quicker in laying down the banhammer than Google. Hell, Mozilla banned a browser hijacker named FVD Speed Dial, whilw Google has it featured on CWS to this day. ~Cherri

I wouldn’t consider myself a Firefox enthusiast, but there is one other major thing I’m concerned about with Chromium, and that’s the Chrome Web Store’s massive malware problem. Practically every month there’s some story about a bunch of malware being found on the store. Even accounting for the smaller userbase Firefox-based browsers have, it’s incredibly rare to see such stories about AMO. When they do come out, Mozilla tends to lay down the banhammer faster than Google does. CWS also had a pretty big problem with survey scams in the past, though I’m not sure about now. And if you look through AMO, one major difference you will notice is a distinct lack of all those sketchy search hijacking new tab extensions that seem to pop up on CWS constantly. Simply put, it appears Google’s review process for extensions on CWS is practically non-existent, while Mozilla’s is much more stringent. ~Cherri

I already use Firefox. I’m just confused as to what’s wrong with Ungoogled Chromium. ~Cherri

How so? What’s wrong with Ungoogled Chromium (besides it being Chromium)?

Decisions are not always good. ~Cherri