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    [–] [email protected] 189 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (69 children)

    Google "Only spy the web" is highly inaccurate...they are everywhere. In every website, in your android phone, in your YouTube, in your Google drive, in your email, in your Google maps...

    Anyways... I will calm down now. :)

    [–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    In your car, your TV, your network, your dns.....

    Everywhere.

    [–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    They are even part of paying for the massive underwater cables between continents that all internet traffic runs through.

    They took everything over.

    It's the most extensive surveillance network in the world.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)
    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Except that instead of an authoritarian government using it to totally control the learned populace, they are showing you ads.

    We've still got a way to go before 1984. If it did happen, you wouldn't be able to discuss it.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    To be fair, Google does release data to governments so I guess it's both.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    We've always been at war with Eastasia.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Used to be a joke, now its a journey.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Literally 1984

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Dystopia has taken over.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Who is accessing the cables/data has never been more important, it's literally the difference between being in or out of reach of the law.

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