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My De-Googling process: *Search(1) -> DuckDuckGo *Gmail(2) -> Fastmail *Android -> SailfishOS (https://sailfishos.org/) *Maps -> OpenStreetMaps *Youtube(3) -> Youtube-dl, "subscriptions" with rss-feeds *Drive -> Self-hosted Nextloud & Syncthing *Calendar -> At first Fastmail, but nowadays back to paper calendar *Chrome -> Brave & Firefox (1) When having problems finding I sometimes check Google Search with bangs. (2)…
A lot of people praise DDG and I'm also one using it as a default search engine, but it's not exactly clear how much independent it is. I've started to consider using Cliqz ( https://cliqz.com/ ) as an alternative or at least a parallel experiment; they claim to be totally independent and to care for user privacy at least as much as DDG does. Does any other HNer have experience with their search result ? I'm still no…
Firefox is now objectively better than Chrome in every way. I would recommend switching moral reasons aside. Chrome's memory management is abysmal. I now get the same shudder when I see someone with chrome on their machine that I used to get when I saw someone running Internet Explorer (which may even be better than chrome now too).
I play games and use complex web apps (GCloud, Office 365) exclusively in Chromium
It could effectively replace iCloud, hackmd (maybe) and has calendaring features too.
For photos storage and sharing you may want to check pCloud. They offer lifetime plan at $350 for 2TB. I'm in no way related; just a happy customer. https://www.pcloud.com/cloud-storage-pricing-plans.html
After having n photo startups (paid and free) disappear into the mist, along with my photos and videos, I decided self-hosting was the only thing I could trust. I couldn't find any software that would reliably scale to my library and fix my mess of duplicates and bitrot files, so I made it. I'm providing access to the beta for free in exchange for feedback, if you'd like to try it. https://photostructure.com/about/v-…
I am surprised that nextcloud isn't cited in this article. It could effectively replace iCloud, hackmd (maybe) and has calendaring features too.
Firefox is now objectively better than Chrome in every way. I would recommend switching moral reasons aside. Chrome's memory management is abysmal. I now get the same shudder when I see someone with chrome on their machine that I used to get when I saw someone running Internet Explorer (which may even be better than chrome now too).
And IE being better than (any browser)? Let's not get carried away. They still have multiple zero day vulnerabilities discovered every year.
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I never read Google discriminates between paying customers before. That's such a wild accusation that it requires serious evidence. Edit: I can reply anymore but just supply a link of data handling discrimination between paying customers because that's what you imply by "there is not difference between GSuite customers and normal gmail". It's bullshit https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
You're correct in that Google doesn't discriminate between paying and non-paying customers: It happily abuses the privacy of it's paying customers too. Many of Google's uses of data are not specific to whether or not someone is using G Suite or consumer Gmail as far as I am aware.
Firefox is now objectively better than Chrome in every way. I would recommend switching moral reasons aside. Chrome's memory management is abysmal. I now get the same shudder when I see someone with chrome on their machine that I used to get when I saw someone running Internet Explorer (which may even be better than chrome now too).
Firefox is now objectively better than Chrome in every way. I would recommend switching moral reasons aside. Chrome's memory management is abysmal. I now get the same shudder when I see someone with chrome on their machine that I used to get when I saw someone running Internet Explorer (which may even be better than chrome now too).
I'm a diehard Firefox fan, but I will be honest: its JS and rendering performance is garbage compared to Chrome. I play games and use complex web apps (GCloud, Office 365) exclusively in Chromium
No, you are not. You are a Google marketing tool.
And this is not ad-hominem from my side, since you made a claim about yourself the main part of your argument.
Google is known for intentionally crippling Firefox performance on their services. That doesn't make Firefox itself slower.