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Re: Ask HN: How have you deGoogled your life?

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Post by ElectronBadger »

N19PEDL2 wrote: post #87
ElectronBadger wrote: post #86

I don't use any of Google services or products. Fairphone 3+ with /e/OS Firefox + uBlock + uMatrix + NoScript Duckduckgo Tutanota (mail, calendar) and ecloud (mail, calendar, notes, tasks) Quad9 DNS SyncThing OpenStreetMap Magic Earth DeepL

/e/ intrigues me. How do you feel about using it?

Went from iOS to it. "It's good enough"(tm) for my needs. No serious experience with "vanilla" Android. With three exceptions (my bank app, Windy and Locus Map) I only use open source apps plus NoRoot Firewall running in the background. For browsing I use Firefox with NoScript and uBlock enabled. Plus, I'm cybersecurity savvy, so all things considered, should be safe enough.

Re: Ask HN: How have you deGoogled your life?

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Post by ElectronBadger »

ElectronBadger wrote: post #86

I don't use any of Google services or products. Fairphone 3+ with /e/OS Firefox + uBlock + uMatrix + NoScript Duckduckgo Tutanota (mail, calendar) and ecloud (mail, calendar, notes, tasks) Quad9 DNS SyncThing OpenStreetMap Magic Earth DeepL

Forgot these three:

Signal

Tusky (Mastodon client)

Codeberg.org

Re: Ask HN: How have you deGoogled your life?

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Post by kleer001 »

No. I don't care. I'm happy to hide in the crowd.

IMHO any data I generate is basically useless chaff. I still have yet to be convinced that there's a downside to this parasitic relationship. How exactly is my life, in a practical way, negatively impacted by this data going walkabout? Does it take years or months off my expected lifespan? Does it give me cavities? Does it turn my family and loved ones against me? Does it slow my typing speed?

Point me to a good non-philosophical non-ideological non-emotional argument and I'll spend my time and money on transitioning to non-google sources for my problem-solutions.

Re: Ask HN: How have you deGoogled your life?

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Post by timbit42 »

aaaaaaaaata wrote: post #107
timbit42 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good way to keep track of new videos on your YouTube channels without being logged in is RSS.

Didn't know they still implemented this! Is this how NewPipe handles subs?

* Channel subscriptions via RSS (since 0.10.0)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewPipe

Re: Ask HN: How have you deGoogled your life?

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Post by goodpoint »

usrn wrote: post #111
goodpoint wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being downvoted on "hacker" news for wanting to use only FOSS devices. (As a side note, you can use a FOSS smartphone like PinePhone)

I own a Pinephone, I go back and forth with it. Once you take away the psychological manipulation and crappy mobile GUI from popular smartphone OSes you start to realize the form factor isn't that great over a very small (like 7-9 inch) laptop.

No way.

Re: Ask HN: How have you deGoogled your life?

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Post by sizzle »

kleer001 wrote: post #125

No. I don't care. I'm happy to hide in the crowd. IMHO any data I generate is basically useless chaff. I still have yet to be convinced that there's a downside to this parasitic relationship. How exactly is my life, in a practical way, negatively impacted by this data going walkabout? Does it take years or months off my expected lifespan? Does it give me cavities? Does it turn my family and loved ones against me? Doe…

They track your every move when your device pings their servers with your location and that is an invasion of privacy to have this 24/7 log. This is barely scratching the surface, imagine how you are being manipulated with target advertising.

Re: Ask HN: How have you deGoogled your life?

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Post by shaky-carrousel »

kleer001 wrote: post #125

No. I don't care. I'm happy to hide in the crowd. IMHO any data I generate is basically useless chaff. I still have yet to be convinced that there's a downside to this parasitic relationship. How exactly is my life, in a practical way, negatively impacted by this data going walkabout? Does it take years or months off my expected lifespan? Does it give me cavities? Does it turn my family and loved ones against me? Doe…

It can send innocent people to jail:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/10/google-data-puts...

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