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How to fight against big tech's power, break out of the stranglehold

Expect the tech titans to be grilled over whether their companies have become so powerful and far-reaching that they harm rivals and all of us, too

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Speaking of alternatives, there’s a different way to buy tech hardware altogether: Purchase gadgets used or refurbished.

Brian X Chen | NYT
In the morning, you check email. At noon, you browse social media and message friends. In the evening, you listen to music while shopping online. Around bedtime, you curl up with an e-book.

For all of those activities, you probably used a product made or sold by Google, Amazon, Apple or Facebook. There’s no simple way to avoid those Big Four. Even if you subscribed to Spotify, you would probably still be using a Google Android phone, an Amazon speaker or an Apple iPhone to stream the music. Even if you deleted Facebook, you might still be using the Facebook-owned