Which is the worst big tech company?

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They're all pretty evil at this stage. I'm going to go Google first, and then Apple (probably because those two are the most dangerous), followed by Meta, then Amazon, then Microsoft.

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None of them are 'evil', lol. You wouldn't have most of the technology you use without them.

Not really? A lot of the modern internet was built on this vaguely hippyish idea of free use and communal knowledge building; these companies are just attempting to financialise it by any means possible (in meta and alphabet's case, by turning their "users" into products themselves). They're not really the primary innovators, and their domination has largely made the world wide web a worse place.

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The one thing about apple in their favour is they are more privacy focused, as their money just comes from high mark-ups and exclusivity. If you use an android phone, you kind of have to accept all sorts of guff is being collected about you; apple do not have the same goal fod its ios users.

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The major tech companies have done their best to embed themselves in the web's infrastructure, but any one of these organizations could deteriorate and we wouldn't lose the internet. Yes, even Amazon and Google.

Would argue with this point though - I think a few of them are almost too big to fail, given things like intranet services, emails etc making up the internal infrastructure of many critical companies, and even in the event of a messy collapse being avoided and such services continuing, the sheer amount of personal data that would be essentially sold off and scattered to the wind makes a bankrupt alphabet a very frightening prospect.

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One big issue with google search is that SEO has completely gamed the system, ensuring page 1 will often be crap and ads. (This has been worst for Google News search and, most disastrously of all, the YouTube search function.)