• ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 month ago

        We can only hope! I’m still hanging on to my gmail accounts while I delete all my emails. It take so long though. I’ve got one about half cleaned out. Can’t wait for the day I can tell them to piss off completely.

    • tangeli@piefed.social
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      2 months ago

      I think they care about the attention it brings to their practices, particularly in jurisdictions outside the US where there may be more inclination to regulate them. Their anti-competitive practices in the context of their oligopoly are problematic. Their concession is what they have judged necessary to reduce the appearance of anti-competitive practices sufficiently to avoid regulatory action. Otherwise they would have gone full walled garden, as they initially intended. Not a ‘nothingburger’. Rather, an important skirmish in the ongoing struggle against their oligopoly.