{"id":4717,"date":"2023-10-28T23:10:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T23:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2023-10-28T23:10:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T23:10:48","slug":"big-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2023\/10\/big-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Big G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about Google. They\u2019re in court right now being investigated for monopoly practices (paying Apple $20B\/year to be the default search engine while competing against them in the phone business is some wild shit), their Android phones are quite a mess from so many angles despite being on version <em>14<\/em>, they\u2019re notorious for bad support and killing products people enjoy. And yet, the brand is intact and they\u2019re making more money than ever.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a sunk-cost fallacy happening with everyone who grew up with Google. It\u2019s like they can\u2019t possibly turn their back from a company that is uh, well a big, US corporate company.<\/p>\n<p>Baby you need help. Understand that the world with the least possible amount of Google, works well. Maybe a couple billion people do that just fine? Probably more.<\/p>\n<p>Get into the open web. Email for private, site for public. Full RSS, period. No ads, no stats. Give. Ponder. Squeeze your brain. That\u2019s what the internet was invented for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about Google. They\u2019re in court right now being investigated for monopoly practices (paying Apple $20B\/year to be the default search engine while competing against them in the phone business is some wild shit), their Android phones are quite a mess from so many angles despite being on version 14, they\u2019re notorious for bad support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}