Imagine there is no YT, no Twitter/X, no Facebook, no Netflix, no Amazon, no Apple, no Google to to search the Web, no chatGPT. Imagine there is no TikTok either (even though it’s not US). Just imagine there is no ‘giant’ tech from anywhere owning any app or service that millions if not billions of people are willing to use.
A world without any of those giant (US) tech companies and services that many of us take for granted.
In that world, what would you use the Internet for? How would you use it? And how much time do you think you would spend online, compared to now?
(my own answer in the comments)
Pretty much the same as before?
The only giant tech firm from your list I am actively engaged with is
GoogleAlphabet because of Android and YouTube. Apart from that, there is PayPal because of online payments and WhatsApp because of other people. But for both, I have 1:1 replacements already in place to be used wherever available.AOSP is opensource, MicroG, a Play Services alternative is developed by European guys. Huawei also has a similar alternative framework, as they are already banned from using Play. Obviously you would loose access to your paid apps, and some spy apps would stop working, but Android can totally work without the goog. I’ve been using it this way for ages !microg@discuss.tchncs.de
Google is in fact Android. The AOSP is just a fig leaf.
Written from my phone running GrapheneOS and MicroG.