also you might not realize just how dependent, if indirectly, you are on G shit. also also, i was speaking to an audience, not about myself
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ah maybe. yeah i'm looking like, at the dependency graph of the entire system, not just the direct dependency. that's what i mean
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The economy is powered more by Google Search than the collective services of the USG
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I'm not denying they can exert leverage over the ecosystem I'm saying if they vanished tomorrow I'd be minorly inconvenienced at best
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or, well, in such a vanishing scenario a lot of infrastructure would fail spectacularly but that isn't really the point
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rather that I personally, directly depend very little on their services, and indirect dependencies are largely incidental
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because most google services (mail, maps, calendar, cloud) are fungible, really it's just the advertising infrastructure that isn't
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yep. problem is this is what runs almost the entire internet, lol
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sure but "we have to get a new mail provider" is a different problem than "oops the one ad market is gone"
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right! that was pretty much my entire point, was it not
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perhaps I misunderstood, I took your meaning to be that people depend necessarily on the constellation of google services
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