• Teknikal@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Google’s a dumb ass company and I strongly suspect them to be Americas replacement to the echolon program mainly due to the timing.

    Seems profits getting a bit more relevant than intelligence to them these days.

    Yeah I’d rather go without YouTube than deal with the ads at this point they went ridiculous with it a long time ago.

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      7 months ago

      Isn’t the replacement to Echelon, just PRISM? Which yes Google are a part of, along with Meta, Microsoft, etc. As well as the lesser known MUSCULAR program.

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        7 months ago

        Could be I just can’t get over the timing of echolon suddenly being called over and Google appearing almost instantly

        That said I still use Google just don’t trust it really I’ve always felt it was an intelligence company in truth and probably the echelons replacement.

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        7 months ago

        All I really know is the same month America said it was cancelling echolon is Google suddenly appeared everywhere.

        Granted I may be paranoid but I’ve always seen Google as the American Government.