A megathread on breaking away from Google
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#3I've been mostly Google free for a while now, other than for some work stuff where I have to access some Google Apps docs. I also still use YouTube because that's where lot of the content still is sadly. What I'm using instead:
- Search: DuckDuckGo, occasionally Bing
- Phone: Windows Phone, pre ordered a Purism Librem 5
- Browser: mostly Firefox and Brave, Edge on mobile and occasionally on desktop
- Maps: Bing Maps (occasionally resort to Google Maps tho)
- Email: ProtonMail
- Calendar: Outlook.com, but I still use Google Calendar for some things
- Cloud storage and backup: Dropbox and OneDrive
Re: A megathread on breaking away from Google
#4I've been mostly Google free for a while now, other than for some work stuff where I have to access some Google Apps docs. I also still use YouTube because that's where lot of the content still is sadly. What I'm using instead: - Search: DuckDuckGo, occasionally Bing - Phone: Windows Phone, pre ordered a Purism Librem 5 - Browser: mostly Firefox and Brave, Edge on mobile and occasionally on desktop - Maps: Bing Maps…
Same here, but instead of getting in bed with microsoft I've moved to using FLOSS components.
Re: A megathread on breaking away from Google
#5I've been mostly Google free for a while now, other than for some work stuff where I have to access some Google Apps docs. I also still use YouTube because that's where lot of the content still is sadly. What I'm using instead: - Search: DuckDuckGo, occasionally Bing - Phone: Windows Phone, pre ordered a Purism Librem 5 - Browser: mostly Firefox and Brave, Edge on mobile and occasionally on desktop - Maps: Bing Maps…
This is essentially just swapping out one perceived bad egg for other bad eggs. Microsoft is no better when it comes to privacy concerns.
Re: A megathread on breaking away from Google
#6I've been mostly Google free for a while now, other than for some work stuff where I have to access some Google Apps docs. I also still use YouTube because that's where lot of the content still is sadly. What I'm using instead: - Search: DuckDuckGo, occasionally Bing - Phone: Windows Phone, pre ordered a Purism Librem 5 - Browser: mostly Firefox and Brave, Edge on mobile and occasionally on desktop - Maps: Bing Maps…
Same here, but instead of getting in bed with microsoft I've moved to using FLOSS components.
That's what I was thinking. Are people just leaving google to use all the microsoft products? That makes 0 sense to me.
Re: A megathread on breaking away from Google
#7I've been mostly Google free for a while now, other than for some work stuff where I have to access some Google Apps docs. I also still use YouTube because that's where lot of the content still is sadly. What I'm using instead: - Search: DuckDuckGo, occasionally Bing - Phone: Windows Phone, pre ordered a Purism Librem 5 - Browser: mostly Firefox and Brave, Edge on mobile and occasionally on desktop - Maps: Bing Maps…
What concerns about Google have you addressed by using alternative services from Microsoft?
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#8YouTube is the most difficult service to break away from, simply because it has all the content - and more and more of my entertainment time is spent watching YouTube. I'm thinking YouTube was Google's most ingenious purchase.
Re: A megathread on breaking away from Google
#9I've been mostly Google free for a while now, other than for some work stuff where I have to access some Google Apps docs. I also still use YouTube because that's where lot of the content still is sadly. What I'm using instead: - Search: DuckDuckGo, occasionally Bing - Phone: Windows Phone, pre ordered a Purism Librem 5 - Browser: mostly Firefox and Brave, Edge on mobile and occasionally on desktop - Maps: Bing Maps…
What concerns about Google have you addressed by using alternative services from Microsoft?
To me Microsoft seems the least bad option these days when there aren't great FOSS options available. I've had a strict no Apple policy for many years so while I wait for the Librem 5 Windows Phone seems like my least bad option. I looked into some of the open Android based alternatives a bit (Lineage etc) but there don't seem to be really great options currently.
For maps I should probably look at Open Street Maps more but I mostly use maps on my phone where being on a Windows Phone with limited app selection the built in Microsoft solution is the simplest / laziest option.
I'm a VR developer so I'm primarily working on Windows for the foreseeable future. Microsoft options end up being the fallback there too (why I sometimes use Edge or Bing over my usual choices).
Re: A megathread on breaking away from Google
#10YouTube is the most difficult service to break away from, simply because it has all the content - and more and more of my entertainment time is spent watching YouTube. I'm thinking YouTube was Google's most ingenious purchase.
YouTube subscriptions work fine with RSS, just to add to this. I have them added to my ttrss, don't even have to log in to watch videos (which is not exactly 'breaking away from YouTube', but I think it's a healthier approach.)