The first to fight back… more need to join and break Google’s hold on the education system.

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      Google gave chromebooks to schools on the cheap, with government funding and permanent spyware active.

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        Schools are, thankfully, starting to realize those weren’t actually all that helpful or educational for most students. Impoverished areas where it was the kid’s only access to a computer were mostly who benefited and there’s alternatives that can be looked at there (such as taxing the wealthy and raising people out of impoverished status).

        This whole degoogle trend and parts of Europe getting off windows really get me excited

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      Actually, it’s become a huge problem that other engines rely on parts of google search, like their search index, for example. Google could just hand them tampered data to worsen their results. Don’t be google.