Which is the worst big tech company?

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Exactly. The backbone of the web consists of things like Wikipedia, government websites, independent media, and Internet Archive.

Academic websites, too, although it makes me sad how many faculty pages and passion projects are fading. Has anyone else had the devastating experience of following an old link (to a .edu) and getting redirected to some polished turd put together by the administration's lackeys in marketing?

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.

As insidious as they are, you can do without their products. The most difficult ones to avoid, like Amazon's cloud services, are also the most replaceable.

I'm not sure which is worst. I voted for Meta on account of personal beef. Every other company on this list has accomplished things that I respect, but Facebook and its satellites are just predatory.

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Apple because the iPhone app store has functioned as a Hays' Code on the internet.

Apple is probably the last one I would want to do without, because all of my elderly relatives use their devices and their accessibility features. I don't like iPhones but I'm glad that my grandma isn't doing her banking on something else.

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I am not sure how to interpret this post but if anything I would enjoy a tip on how to make Reddit disappear from my Google search results.

You can use a userscript like this one to maintain a list of ignored sites:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-domain-search-filter-block-sites