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It’s hurting my feelings a lot. In the early days, they seemed like the perfect company to work for; remember their motto, “do no evil”? Well, those days are gone, and there’s not much I can do about it. I have two YouTube channels, I have a Samsung phone, and most of the things I use on it are via Google… including my Fitbit. I’m stuck; sigh…
Happy New Year to you, my friend. Would you consider moving your channels to Dailymotion or Vimeo? I have an Android phone, too, but no Google on it, not even Google Services. It was really annoying when I had a Googled phone from around 2012 and you could never turn the Google spyware off (it would restart by itself) so when that phone was replaced in 2016, I made sure it was Google-free. Even then I stayed away from these people. I’ve never looked into Fitbits but it’s a shame they are linked to Google. That rules one of those out for me.
I believe it is possible though I suspect in your case, it will come with some business disruption. You really have to focus on doing it if you chose to take that route.
I’ve never heard of DailyMotion, but one of my YouTube channels has just been monetized, and even if I’m probably making pennies, at least it’s a start after 13 years… that’s pathetic. lol
As for the phone, I stayed away from Google as much as I could until last year when I learned that my Fitbit wasn’t going to sync with Samsung anymore unless I added a Google account; I’m loyal to the stuff I like, and I don’t want to buy anything other than Fitbit.
The realistic thing is that there’s only so much any of us can do because the conglomerates are running the show and basically writing off minorities as entitles they don’t care about anymore. If I wasn’t connected to almost all of my family members on Dad’s side of the family, I’d leave FB in a hot minute, but none of them will ever come along… at least none of them voted for conservatives. :-)
Dailymotion is sort of French YouTube. It’s been around for a long time and we host our videos on it. They pay pretty well, and that’s with me refusing to sign anything with Google. (Google controls a lot of the ad market so usually people team up with them. I refuse to.) So if you signed up, you might make more?
We did have a few videos on YouTube in the 2000s, which are probably still up. Never saw a penny. We stopped using YouTube when they began forcing us to use a Google log-in. I don’t know what year that was but I hated Google even then.
That’s a shame about Fitbit—I can’t understand companies who want to team up with Google so desperately. I guess there must be money in it for them. Even an “app” for charging electric cars here needs Google and I cannot see any reason for involving them. Therefore I can never charge an EV in this country with those chargers because they all need “apps” which are only available on Google Shop, which I don’t have.
I’ve managed to stay away from those Big Tech outfits for the most part. My cousins tend to email and never really joined Facebook. I left there years ago. I don’t feel I’ve missed much. Maybe it takes one person to leave and the others will follow?
Well, Holly just left; I haven’t noticed anyone she was connected to leaving, but I don’t know everyone. Our country is in peril, but if I left FB and tried getting away from Google, it would only leave you… I think… lol
I know Holly is on Bluesky, but I couldn’t bring myself to go to another platform owned by a rich tech bro. That seems so 2000s. I know Mastodon has its problems but I’ve been on there so long (2017)—and it was Holly who got me into the fediverse the year before to begin with!