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Ask HN: How have you deGoogled your life?

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

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Post by gaws »

pmoriarty wrote: post #72

deGoogling is great, but I don't want any corporations to track me or have data about me, and unfortunately the alternatives to Google are usually not any better in this respect. They might, like DDG, promise not to track me and to respect my privacy, but as an ordinary user I have absolutely no way of verifying their claims. I don't trust Vimeo any more than YouTube. I don't trust Authy any more than Google Authenti…

> I don't want any corporations to track me or have data about me

In that case, stop using the Internet, your smartphone (and smart devices), credit/debit cards, streaming services, etc.

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

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Post by themadturk »

I have been quasi-DeGoogleified for nearly a decade.

The main thing standing in my way is the family domain hosted by Google. There are few enough of us, not using it for anything but family stuff, that Google is letting us keep it for free. Though I have an account at that domain (since I'm the administrator), I don't use the domain anymore.

Other than that, except for an occasional foray into YouTube and a !g search when DDG isn't satisfactory, I pretty much ignore Google. I'm still more entangled than I want to be, but better than I was.

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

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

gaws wrote: post #138
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #82

1. Bought a couple of personal domains and signed-up with Fastmail. Configured Fastmail to periodically pull emails from my legacy gmail account. I use the Fastmail webapp on desktop and their android app on phone/tablet. 2. Removed google analytics from my personal website/blog. 3. Uninstall Chrome on desktops and disable it on Android phone/tablet. 4. Use Firefox with Multi Account Containers add-on so that I am by…

> Use Firefox with Multi Account Containers add-on so that I am by default signed-out of google unless I need to do specific things, which are sandboxed in specific tabs That is a great idea.

I should probably clarify that it is not available on mobile.

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

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Post by dtx1 »

Youden wrote: post #118
dtx1 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

10$/month for a search engine that is basically a nice google/bing Proxz is ludicrous. For that price you can just run your own searx instance

Kagi isn't a Google/Bing proxy, it's independent. Its quality is similar or better than Google/Bing.

From their FAQ

> Our searching includes anonymized requests to traditional search indexes like Google and Bing as well as vertical sources like Wikipedia and DeepL or other APIs.

It's a fucking google proxy with some nice css

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

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Post by shaky-carrousel »

wmeredith wrote: post #132
shaky-carrousel wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It can send innocent people to jail: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/10/google-data-puts...

I'm sure it can, but in the link you provided it definitely did not.

> McCoy was lucky. He and his family are also a bit poorer because of the incident. If his parents hadn’t helped him out by giving him thousands of dollars to hire a lawyer, things could have turned out differently, he says.

Out of partly luck and partly a lawyer. He could easily have ended up in jail.

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