Hannes

It’s the go-to strategy for fossil fuel companies to stay in the market as long as possible

They know it’s not possible, they don’t want to build new ones but the discussion alone is slowing down renewables and makes it less likely that the current fossil power plants can be shut down soon.

Also just look how hard it is to find spots for renewables

Surely there will be no NIMBYs preventing atomic power plants and storage spaces for the used material from being built…

If this wasn’t enough of a wakeupcall to not put all the eggs in one basket then what is? Companies are literally doing this to lock you into their service so it’s harder to switch since you then have to find X new services instead of just one.

Better go with one that’d specialized for each service you need…

If it’s free then you’re the product

And if you’re the product then there’s an interest to keep you on the site and show you ads which works best if the first result isn’t the correct one and you need to scroll or even go to page two

It’s literally the reason why Google got so much worse that they wanted to show more ads to users which wouldn’t work if the best result is always the first