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Apple is much better. You can also install a custom rom.
apple marketing sells you the idea that they are much better... sad that even people here fall for that. 10% of their monster revenue is selling your data to advertiser backchannels.
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It's inherently confusing. Rubbish. What's confusing is having a zillion usernames and passwords for every site on the internet, and "doing it right" (which only a tiny percentage do) requires installing password manager extensions in your browser. In practice billions of users use the same insecure password everywhere including their banks. You may or may not like the implications of centralizing authentication to a…
> What's confusing is having a zillion usernames and passwords for every site on the internet, and "doing it right" (which only a tiny percentage do) requires installing password manager extensions in your browser. In practice billions of users use the same insecure password everywhere including their banks. That should be OS level. The fact that the OS does not provide good, lightweight ways for mortal users to whip…
I log into things from my apple laptop, my android phone, and occasionally from a chromebook I have lying around. Credentials shouldn't be tied to one OS or one OS maker. I'm happier with authentication baked into Chrome, which straddles all three.
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Dropping chrome is not enough. Switch to bing (Just as good as G), or ddg if you really want. Then ditch android which is the spy in your pocket. If you're installing G analytics for clients then choose an alternative (I'm open to suggestions here). It's really time to disentangle ourselves from google. They've quietly and effectively insinuated themselves across the web. Enough is enough.
If you have your own server somewhere or access to such managed by someone you trust may I suggest using a meta-search engine like Searx [1] instead? That way you get to swat a whole cloud of flies in one fell swoop: 1: no personal tracking or profiling data for the search providers 2: no 'personalised' search 3: search results from several providers condensed into one list, i.e. more results for the same query You c…
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Dropping chrome is not enough. Switch to bing (Just as good as G), or ddg if you really want. Then ditch android which is the spy in your pocket. If you're installing G analytics for clients then choose an alternative (I'm open to suggestions here). It's really time to disentangle ourselves from google. They've quietly and effectively insinuated themselves across the web. Enough is enough.
I'm stuck on deciding what my primary mail provider will be. I do not mind paying a few bucks a month, would anyone have a suggestion? Regarding drive replacement, I will probably host a nextcloud instance.
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apple marketing sells you the idea that they are much better... sad that even people here fall for that. 10% of their monster revenue is selling your data to advertiser backchannels.
Source? That doesn't right at all. Even google doesn't sell your data directly, just ads; they do in-house analysis of the data.
And if you happen know user Y matches user earenndil in a data set you control, now you know user earenndil belongs to demographic Z.
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I really wish iOS allowed for custom search engines, it's hard coded to just google, yahoo, bing, and duckduckgo because then that would allow for this roll-your-own pattern to be accessible when on the phone / tablet (if using an iPhone/iPad).
It's only Safari on iOS that doesn't let you change search engines. If you install Firefox you can install any search engine you want and you can customize the search URL. It still uses the Safari engine under the hood, but the user facing bits are a condensed version of desktop Firefox, including tracking protection and sync.
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I switched my default search engine to Bing on my phone (when AMP started to become a thing) and it's been great. I do still use Google on my work PC, because it knows I'm a C++ programmer and can show more relevant results. I am against the direction tracking is going, but it is useful in some cases.
Bing is now serving AMP pages (since the new Governance Model was unveiled), so...
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Bing is now serving AMP pages (since the new Governance Model was unveiled), so...
Hi Vanadium....I'm a journalist and saw a post of yours on an older HN thread that I was hoping to ask you about. Any chance you'd be willing to connect so I can share details about me and what I'm working on? Cell is 847-380-0751