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How to Fight Against Big Tech’s Power
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In the morning, you check email. At noon, you browse social media and message friends. In the evening, you listen to music while shopping online. Around bedtime, you curl up with an e-book. For all of those activities, you probably used a product made or sold by Google, Amazon, Apple or Facebook. There’s no simple way to avoid those Big Four. Even if you subscribed to Spotify, you would probably still be using a Google Android phone, an Amazon speaker or an Apple iPhone to stream the music. (...)

#Apple #Google #Amazon #Mastodon_ #Facebook #Android #Brave #Firefox #Opera #smartphone #DuckDuckGo #consommation #technologisme #domination (...)

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Lawmakers, United in Their Ire, Lash Out at Big Tech’s Leaders
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The chiefs of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook faced withering questions from Democrats about anti-competitive practices and from Republicans about anti-conservative bias. WASHINGTON — The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, four tech giants worth nearly $5 trillion combined, faced withering questions from Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike on Wednesday for the tactics and market dominance that had made their enterprises successful. For more than five hours, (...)

#Apple #Google #Amazon #Facebook #algorithme #Android #iPhone #smartphone #domination #marketing #microtargeting #publicité #bénéfices #profiling (...)

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