The Google business model is based on collecting personal data from users, selling it to third parties and serving ads. The company also enganges in surveillance programs, develops artificial intelligence programs for military purposes and exploits its users, among other things.

It is one of the most powerful companies on the planet. However, Google is a giant with feet of clay that can be annihilated.

Finish off its ad revenue

Google makes money by serving personalised ads based on the information it collects from its users. If people don't see ads, Google doesn't make money. Blocking ads is a way to prevent tracking and make Google lose money, but if you visit Google's pages, Google will still get information it can sell to advertisers. So the easiest thing to do is to block ads and avoid Google sites.

Another idea is to click on all ads with the AdNauseam extension, which also hides them from us so that we don't find them annoying. This method means that Google makes less money from ad clicks and that Google's servers have a little more workload (minimal, but it does add to their costs).

Filling Google's servers with crap

Google lets you upload almost anything to their servers (videos, files, etc.). If the content uploaded to its servers takes up a lot of space and is junk that scares people away from its services (videos with robot voices speaking nonsense, hundreds of videos with noise that take up gigabytes upon gigabytes), the cost of maintaining the servers increases and the company's profit is reduced.

If this is a globally coordinated effort by multiple users, Google would have to start restricting uploads, hiring people to find junk videos, blocking people and IP addresses, etc., which would increase its losses and reduce its profits.

For example, I can create 15-minute videos every hour and upload them to YouTube automatically or semi-automatically. The videos should take up a lot of space. The more resolution, the more colours, the more sound variety, the more frames per second, the more money YouTube will spend to keep those videos on its servers.

The video I show below was generated automatically with ffmpeg. It is only two seconds long, but it takes up 136 MB. A similar 15-minute video would take 61.2 GB.

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As it is already well known, Youtube isn't free software and it doesn't respects your privacy, but unfortunately some videos are only found there. In this article I present you Invidious, a simple way to watch YouTube videos without executing proprietary software from Google.

Invidious is a free and lightweight interface for YouTube that is made with software freedom in mind. These are some of its features:

• No ads
• It's free software, source code under the AGPLv3 license
• It has a search engine
• Doesn't need a Google account to save subscriptions
• Supports captions
• Very customizable
• Allows embedding videos from Invidious in your page, like the following...

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Instagram is a centralized social network that requires the use of proprietary software. It's almost impossible to use Instagram without giving up your privacy or freedom... unless we use another front-end, such as Bibliogram, which I describe in this article.

Bibliogram allows consulting user profiles, posts and IGTV videos in a simple way. In the home page, there are search forms for both posts and users.

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Twitter is a centralized social network that requires the use of proprietary software. It's almost impossible to use Twitter without giving up your privacy or freedom... unless we use another front-end, such as Nitter, which I describe in this article.

I think its name is an acronym from not twitter. But who cares? The thing is that it works well and also the interface is lightweight, it prevents Twitter from getting your IP, you can customize its look, it has native RSS feeds and it's responsive.

It's now in its infancy, so they are expected to include more features, such a login system to admin accounts you follow from its web.

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