Fuck Google and monopolies

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Update 5/20:App is back in store.

This is what you get with monopolies. They are beholden to the government, who are owned by the oligarchs.

A real government would break up the oligopolies – we haven’t seen those days for decades.

My favorite podcast app – the most popular on Android – Podcast Addict has been booted from the store for allowing you to download any podcast – including one that says unofficial things about COVID – or as we know it here – Coronavirushoax2020.

It’s a bid of a blow to the developer, but in this brave new Covid world – it just requires a bit of effort to work around the big boys and their rules.

I suspect so much of life will be living outside the box. Teaching survival skills to your family will be the 220;new normal” – a phrase I hate.

Search for FDroid and other apps and read this reddit thread while you can to see reaction to this latest form of censorship.

Podcast Addict: "Google has just suspended Podcast Addict again. This time for having Podcasts about Covid 19… Are you for real Google. Can you please check your own Google Podcast App, your search engine,Youtube, … first" from Android

Google has just suspended Podcast Addict again. This time for having Podcasts about Covid 19… Are you for real Google. Can you please check your own Google Podcast App, your search engine,Youtube, … first221;

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John le Bon

2 years ago

Mailing lists are indeed an excellent tool for those of us with ideas and information to share. I’ve been promoting the hell out of my mailing list and I hope that Ab the Fakeologist, Mark from PoM, and all other good content creators and disseminators in our corner of the internet will do likewise, and promote the hell out of their own lists. You can download your mailing list info in table form to your hard drive and then, even if your mailing list provider cancels your account, you still have all of the important info i.e. the emails of… Read more »

ricky

I see that as the logical progression to where society is headed, I’m actually a bit surprised that some vids and sites are still up. Our only “hope” such as it is, is that there is still such a small minority of people frequenting them that they don’t bother to shut them down. What a conundrum, rooting for our situation to be so bad as to preserve our diminishing outlets for honest self-expression.

tokarski

You know as well as I that you and I could be Gone tomorrow. imhave a post I am putting up tomorrow meant to be my last. i don’t want it to be that, but see the writing on the wall.

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I hope you’re wrong. Otherwise see you on the dark web! Maybe it’s back to mailing lists.

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Fuck Google and monopolies