I’m not disagreeing, but who can stand up against corporate bullying? The government. Make the government do it. The corporate world gets away with it because the politicians turn a blind eye because they’re not held accountable because not enough people stand together. People have bled for the rights that “privileged” people have, it didn’t come free.

Demand more of your local government instead of pulling the privilege card.

I google “chatgpt” first link gives me page where I can use chatgpt

I google “gemini” cant find anything

I google “gemini chatgpt” i find only articles discussing the two

I google “gemini ai”, “google gemini”, “google ai” i find no pages where I can use it but lots of pages about how great it is

think I’ll just stick to chatgpt ok thanks

I’ll gloss over that you either missed my point or ignored it; I don’t use YouTube because it’s too shit, actually.

I don’t pay for any Google services, not that I’m using any with any consistency anymore, for the same reason that I don’t use them anymore. Google cannot be trusted to provide a good service, paying costumer or not. If you punish me for using the free product, why would I ever trust you? Steam doesn’t slap me across the face at every chance it gets when I don’t spend money on their store for a long period of time, yet I have no issue paying for the games I do want to play despite piracy being completely risk-free by comparison.

The reason I don’t bring them revenue is because they continue to make the experience worse. Paying isn’t going to make that stop, it’s just going to temporarily shift the bar a little; the bar is however still moving towards a shittier experience for all.

Why would I look at this and go “Yes, I’ll pay!” There are a lot of services I would genuinely pay for if I didn’t have an impending dread that the service is just about to get worse again regardless of if I pay or not. It’s not like paying is a magic bullet, either, it comes with a ton of different issues like privacy. They still sell your soul to advertisers if you pay them.

What timing! I just deleted mine a week ago.