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De-Googling: My Progress

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Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by mouldysammich »

I've been slowly de-googling/de-large-corporationing.

- DuckDuckGo for search mostly, trying out qwant

- Runbox for email, I like the service and its incredibly cheap and have my own domain

- Youtube -> miniflux for subscriptions & newpipe on my phone

- I cant delete facebook but I've mitigated it to using matrix + a facebook->matrix bridge

- Using osmand~ and open street maps for directions, i dont have a way to get public transport directions, I helped write a program that does this in college but,, its not very good

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by downerending »

DeathArrow wrote: post #63

The trouble with de-Google is you have to replace a highly integrated suite of apps with separate bits which lack integration. Also, if you have hundreds of accounts where you used gmail to register and hundreds or thousands of contacts which might send you mail, it's hard to switch.

Somewhat true. On the other hand, if/when you lose access to your Google account, lack of integration might seem like a life-saving plus.

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Post by Yetanfou »

glogla wrote: post #57
totorovirus wrote: post #2

de-googling: appleling

Yes, there are just two generally usable mobile OSs - ios and android. The only way to not share you every living moment with google while still having a snartphone is to have an iphone. It's fucked up that's the way world is, but it is the way the world is.

There is a better way: Google-free Android. You get to use/keep one of the many supported Android devices without giving either Google or Apple insight in whatever you happen to be doing .I've been doing this for more or less as long as I've used Android, i.e. close to 10 years now. Back then LineageOS was still called Cyanogenmod. There were - and still are - alternative AOSP-based distributions which do more or less the same thing. These are Google-free by default, is you so choose you can either add the Google bits ('gapps' - a package containing the Google services framework and Google apps) or a free-software alternative which tries to emulate GSF, or none of the above. Nae lairds, nae kings -> nae Apple, nae Google (to paraphrase Pratchett)

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Post by ComodoHacker »

>Then force Thunderbird to fully download all of my mail and then push it all back up.

I didn't know it's possible to upload mail (without actually sending it) with IMAP.

Do hosted providers allow that? Looks like it's additional cost with no benefit if you don't data-mine email.

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Post by def8cefe »

ComodoHacker wrote: post #74

>Then force Thunderbird to fully download all of my mail and then push it all back up. I didn't know it's possible to upload mail (without actually sending it) with IMAP. Do hosted providers allow that? Looks like it's additional cost with no benefit if you don't data-mine email.

Yes, they do allow it. That's normally how you migrate mailboxes as an individual. Most providers have storage limits so it's not really subject to abuse.

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Post by [deleted] »

ComodoHacker wrote: post #74

>Then force Thunderbird to fully download all of my mail and then push it all back up. I didn't know it's possible to upload mail (without actually sending it) with IMAP. Do hosted providers allow that? Looks like it's additional cost with no benefit if you don't data-mine email.

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Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by geekgonecrazy »

ComodoHacker wrote: post #74

>Then force Thunderbird to fully download all of my mail and then push it all back up. I didn't know it's possible to upload mail (without actually sending it) with IMAP. Do hosted providers allow that? Looks like it's additional cost with no benefit if you don't data-mine email.

So far I haven’t seen any limitations by providers. I can see potentially rate limiting. But I’ve done this before even helping move client emails via outlook to another provider. The client just happily syncs any email you toss in

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Post by geekgonecrazy »

ariejan wrote: post #13
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.

Mail in a box comes with Nextcloud for contacts/calendaring, well, out of the box.

Yes definitely comes with. Seems to be a stripped down nextcloud or owncloud. Not sure which. I forgot to mention this.

It’s definitely something I’ll probably look at

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