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Interesting! Your first concern and reason for De-Googling was privacy, so I'd say moving to iPhone, iCloud, WhatsApp (owned by Facebook) and the like doesn't help you much. I also think you forgot video-conferencing/video chat. I'd go for Zoom, but there's a bunch of alternatives. Most have their drawbacks. Lastly, move to Europe where we have GDPR. I actually can not read some news articles that are hosted in the U…
For messaging, Telegram FTW, but can't seem to convince a lot of my friends to move over.
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Don't you guys use an ad blocker? I barely see any ads since I started using uBlock. Occasionally I browse without an ad blocker and the experience is horrible and intimidating. Actually ads and propaganda were the reasons I quit TV around 10 years ago and I have never regretted it. So much time and mental energy is freed up to do constructive and fulfilling things (e.g. reading books, sports, socializing, musing etc…
Been avoiding internet ads and tracking for 15 years now. I feel like the unibomber. Facebook and google probably still have a good fingerprint on me, though, due to iOS not letting you use good ad blockers. Something uncanny happened recently in terms of the ads I do see that gave me quite a bit of paranoia. My SO recently bought a distinct pair of leggings. How am I seeing ads for that same exact pair of leggings,…
I use 'Adblock Fast'. Seems fine, but I admit I have nothing to compare it to.
You can sync contacts via CardDav and your calendar via CalDav.
Even better, if you have a work Google account like I do, you can import your calendar as an overlay on Fastmail's calendar using OAuth2.
If you'd like your calendar without the pesky forced management profiles, it's a neat workaround while still remaining relatively secure. It also doesn't break when your arbitrary forced password rotation kicks in every 90 days ;)
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Worcester has a higher population than England's Worcester, and as such probably has more backlinks to pages related to it. That is global. Expecting global results to be regionalized is silly; just use regionalized results.
That's a very engineer-focused way of looking at it. I don't care about backlinks or population or whatever weighting DDG uses: I want relevant results. DDG is a user-facing search engine, not a tech demo. Showing a UK visitor three pages of results about Worcester, MA is simply bad UX.
Replaced Chrome browser with Firefox
Replaced Google search with DuckDuckGo
Replaced Gmail with ProtonMail
Replaced Google Maps with OpenStreetMap
Replaced Hangouts with Telegram
Replaced Google for news with Feedly
Replaced Google Translate with DeepL
In summary, I don't see the purpose of de-googling as an individual. And if de-google collectively, we're all worse off. And yet I de-googled last year.
PS: I use Brave, Android, flutter & duck.com, which only exists to its quality today because of Google.
Interesting! Your first concern and reason for De-Googling was privacy, so I'd say moving to iPhone, iCloud, WhatsApp (owned by Facebook) and the like doesn't help you much. I also think you forgot video-conferencing/video chat. I'd go for Zoom, but there's a bunch of alternatives. Most have their drawbacks. Lastly, move to Europe where we have GDPR. I actually can not read some news articles that are hosted in the U…
What privacy issues do you think the iPhone has?
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Actually that’s better too, I like how it’s possible to switch countries easily to get local results or choose global results. Some non technical searches are more difficult though.
DDG’s definition of “global” is essentially “American” though. Presenting results exclusively for Worcester, MA, when I search for “Worcester” from a UK IP address (near Worcester, Worcestershire) isn’t being global, it’s being dumb. It comes up every time DDG is discussed on HN and I don’t understand why they don’t fix it. It’s the main thing that keeps me using Bing on my phone.
YMMV, of course, but this search works fine for me.