• Routhinator@startrek.website
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    20 hours ago

    Sure, but then you are also not funding Google’s competition in order to help improve choice.

    Buying second hand might make you feel better because you didn’t directly fund Google, but you’re still helping them maintain their position.

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      16 hours ago

      «Funding competition» means giving money to Chinese State companies, for most consumers.

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        14 hours ago

        Most of the american companies are using Chinese manufacturing for much of the devices. Fairphone is European, but same manufacturing sources.

        In 2026, as a Canadian… Choosing between a country that is adopting nazi practices and threatening us with annexation, and one who has a questionable history but is overall doing more for climate change and global stability right now than the other… The choice is easy. Anything but american.

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          12 hours ago

          No, it’s choosing between giving money to a company or to no one at all, in the case of a 2nd hand.