It’s not just buying their products either. It’s using their products, even the ones that are free. Every view on YouTube and every Google search supports Google. Every time you use Facebook Marketplace or WhatsApp or Instagram it supports Meta. Every time you browse Amazon without buying, or use any service hosted on AWS, it helps Amazon.
We need to cut out these corporations as thoroughly as we can, by not even giving them our traffic.
It goes beyond that. Word out mouth is HUGE in this day and age. Not just talking with people at work or your friends and family. Interacting with strangers online is engagement. If you bootleg an Amazon Original and then go online to talk about it, it doesn’t matter if you tell people you torrented it. All that matters is that there is engagement. Maybe others will torrent it, too, but just as likely someone will watch it that may never have otherwise because of the conversation you had, and they may not torrent it. Then they go off and tell some other people who tell some other people, and now that one time your torrented a movie has generated an amount of money greater than $0.
We have to completely cut all of these companies out of our lives if we are going to fix anything.
It’s not just buying their products either. It’s using their products, even the ones that are free. Every view on YouTube and every Google search supports Google. Every time you use Facebook Marketplace or WhatsApp or Instagram it supports Meta. Every time you browse Amazon without buying, or use any service hosted on AWS, it helps Amazon.
We need to cut out these corporations as thoroughly as we can, by not even giving them our traffic.
It goes beyond that. Word out mouth is HUGE in this day and age. Not just talking with people at work or your friends and family. Interacting with strangers online is engagement. If you bootleg an Amazon Original and then go online to talk about it, it doesn’t matter if you tell people you torrented it. All that matters is that there is engagement. Maybe others will torrent it, too, but just as likely someone will watch it that may never have otherwise because of the conversation you had, and they may not torrent it. Then they go off and tell some other people who tell some other people, and now that one time your torrented a movie has generated an amount of money greater than $0.
We have to completely cut all of these companies out of our lives if we are going to fix anything.
Need alt youtube platforms
https://lemmy.world/c/peertube