De-Googling: My Progress

#1

Post by dredmorbius » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 4:27 AM UTC

De-Googling: My Progress
geekgonecrazy.com

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

#2

Post by totorovirus » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 5:16 AM UTC

de-googling: appleling

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

#3

Post by saagarjha » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 5:32 AM UTC

totorovirus wrote: post #2

de-googling: appleling

At least it’s in line with their reasoning: https://geekgonecrazy.com/2020/04/27/de-googling/. But yes, the threat of lock-in/deplatforming/being at the mercy of a massive corporation is still present.

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

#4

Post by BerkhanBerkdemi » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 5:32 AM UTC

I still don't understand why people are moving from G products and use Apple+self-hosted? The author is saying he is hosting the e-mail server but, for example, not an iCal server.

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by saagarjha » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 5:35 AM UTC

BerkhanBerkdemi wrote: post #4

I still don't understand why people are moving from G products and use Apple+self-hosted? The author is saying he is hosting the e-mail server but, for example, not an iCal server.

(Isn’t it technically an “iCalendar server”, as iCal is the name for the client that Apple used to make?)

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by TedDoesntTalk » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 5:37 AM UTC

> I’ve already pulled down my 2-300GB Google Photos archive

How? I've tried several times and can never complete the download. Wired ethernet, not wifi.

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by louismerlin » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 5:48 AM UTC

BerkhanBerkdemi wrote: post #4

I still don't understand why people are moving from G products and use Apple+self-hosted? The author is saying he is hosting the e-mail server but, for example, not an iCal server.

Google has no problem browsing through your data to serve you "better" advertisement, while Apple claims to respect your privacy (I would be tempted to believe them).

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by harha » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 5:49 AM UTC

I actually think the results on DuckDuckGo are better than on google for many topics especially technical:

- there’s less ads (you can turn them off completely, but I’ve only seen one ad on the front page at most which is ok for me)

- not as SEOed (still not great though)

- the box on the side is often more useful, e.g. Wikipedia instead of shopping ads

- on mobile Safari I use the bangs [0] which have a sort of Omnibox experience

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

(Edited formatting)

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by Semaphor » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 5:51 AM UTC

> Cyanogenmod but it was always so buggy

Huh? LineageOS has been rock stable for me for years as long as I go with stable builds. Maybe the author meant using something like microG to replace all the google frameworks?

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by wideasleep1 » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 5:52 AM UTC

I'd recommend trying these Google Alt's: Protonmail or Fairmail for email. DuckduckGo or Bromite for low-ad/tracker browsing, or button down your Chrome with Umatrix/UBO and a host of other extensions (Privacy Badger, Canvas Blocker, etc.) Been using Protonmail beta's Calender feature with success, can't wait for their Android App. Have begun pulling all my photos off Photos and moving to both local drives and PCloud, and considering encrypting them at rest there too. DDG/SearX for Search. NextDNS for secure and adfree DNS mimicing PiHole (which I have at home) when away. If you want to keep your awesome Android hardware (OnePlus6T here), you can disable Google Services Framework and neuter everything at will using NetGuard, with the paid version allowing individual link granularity, so you can stop that Facebook link Spotify spawns upon launch, among all others. This allows you to fine tune each app to comm with only links you allow. FB is particularly pesky..once it fails to connect to it's obvious servers, it spawns other numerical IP's that you have to do lookups on to see where/who they are...often returning to FB, so it's an ongoing task, recommended only for those most commited. I was on this path well before Shoshana's book, but her presentation was reaffirming. EDIT: of course...Signal, how did I forget that..most used app of all.