Re: Not going to happen
The problem is not with the service, the problem is with the profiling, and the noxious feedback loop it's used for. None of those services require profiling to provide their useful functionality. Rather, their useful functionality is just used as a hook to implement profiling.
But, technically, you could easily have all of them with no profiling at all. Google would have to make its money some other way, of course, and I'd gladly pay for a subscription or something like that if it meant that masses of people around me are no longer deliberately fed whatever will cause them to make one more click, even if it's inflammatory drivel that wastes their time at best, and validates sociopathic traits at worst.
Obviously, it wouldn't make *as much* money as it does now, but although a fair society does owe companies a fair shot, it by no means owes them to just let them make as money as they possibly can, to the detriment of society itself.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
