If you live in China, the Great Firewall protects you from Google.
How I Fully Quit Google (And You Can, Too)
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#22I am trying to do this right now, I want to make android apps but I already have one strike on my account and the threat of losing everything associated with Google is too much. I already successfully moved my email but that took something like a year. Finding all the places where I used that address wasn't easy. I am now wrestling with photos, I haven't found a service that I like yet. I'll try nextcloud but I am no…
To avoid this problem in the future, I would recommend registering a domain name and attaching an email address. I have switched to a different email provider three times in the last ten years without changing my email address.
Yep, that's what I did now with Namecheap and Fastmail
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#23I recently did the same thing. FastMail for email, Apple Maps for Google Maps (not as good as Google, but better than when it launched), DuckDuckGo for search, Firefox or Brave as my browser. I was not prepared for how long and sometimes convoluted it was to change my email address on every site/service. Some bafflingly did not allow me to change my email address. I use Microsoft OneDrive for photo storage but am loo…
I'm curious as to why you did that.
I get people wanting to use less Google services, but why quit all together?
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#24If you live in China, the Great Firewall protects you from Google.
Unfortunately, it can't protect you from China.
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#25Web browsers: > Avoid Opera and Vivaldi, as they use Chrome as their base. Brave is my secondary browser. Brave is based on Chromium too, isn't it? (I don't blame the author for not knowing this; I'm not certain myself.)
Yeah Brave uses Blink. I just went to its Wikipedia page and it’s in the first sentence. Switching to Firefox would solve the browser issue though.
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#26I recently did the same thing. FastMail for email, Apple Maps for Google Maps (not as good as Google, but better than when it launched), DuckDuckGo for search, Firefox or Brave as my browser. I was not prepared for how long and sometimes convoluted it was to change my email address on every site/service. Some bafflingly did not allow me to change my email address. I use Microsoft OneDrive for photo storage but am loo…
> I use Microsoft OneDrive for photo storage but am looking for an alternative.
We keep a few hundred GB of family photos and videos in Apple Photos/iCloud. You could also consider Flickr now that they're owned by SmugMug
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#27I think switching to Firefox is the easiest of all. You are not logged in with your Google account all the time which I would think is a big deal. My problem would be YouTube. I spend way too much time there and none other site has half of the content.
Perhaps creating an account for Youtube only and/or browsing it inside a Firefox Multi-Account Container [1] would already go a long way.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
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#28I also in an attempt to freed from Google Services. I switch google search engine to duck-duck go. When i used to search things related with programming / website that using "english language", DDG could compete Google. But when I start to use DDG in my country (Indonesia), DDG is failing a lot against Google.
About browser, i'd rather to use Safari & Firefox as a secondary browser.
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#29I recently did the same thing. FastMail for email, Apple Maps for Google Maps (not as good as Google, but better than when it launched), DuckDuckGo for search, Firefox or Brave as my browser. I was not prepared for how long and sometimes convoluted it was to change my email address on every site/service. Some bafflingly did not allow me to change my email address. I use Microsoft OneDrive for photo storage but am loo…
> I use Microsoft OneDrive for photo storage but am looking for an alternative. We keep a few hundred GB of family photos and videos in Apple Photos/iCloud. You could also consider Flickr now that they're owned by SmugMug
If you need RAW file archival, then most photo sites will not work and you will have to use OneDrive, Box, etc. Most free photo sites will convert or require conversion to popular compressed formats. That may be okay with many/most, however, some people will want to retain original files.
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#30I recently did the same thing. FastMail for email, Apple Maps for Google Maps (not as good as Google, but better than when it launched), DuckDuckGo for search, Firefox or Brave as my browser. I was not prepared for how long and sometimes convoluted it was to change my email address on every site/service. Some bafflingly did not allow me to change my email address. I use Microsoft OneDrive for photo storage but am loo…
I'm curious as to why you did that. I get people wanting to use less Google services, but why quit all together?
To not be surveilled and behaviorally analyzed so much.