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De-Googling: My Progress

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Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by _-david-_ »

Diesel555 wrote: post #326
_-david-_ wrote: post #299

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>Apple is not an advertising company Except when they are https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074

Apple protects your data. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 Yes they advertise, but you are not the product on services such as cloud. They often cannot physically read your data intentionally.

They sell ads based on intrests and location. This makes them money. How are you not the product?

They actually can read your data. They abandoned plans to do end to end encryption [0] on icloud backups. When you get a new iphone you can view all your old messages which means Apple in all likelyhood has access to your private key.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/21/apple-reportedly-abandoned-en...

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by niemenmaa »

kmarc wrote: post #125
niemenmaa wrote: post #104

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)…

Can you elaborate on the Nextcloud&Syncthing part? It would be awesome to have LAN local syncing (as Syntching does), while being able to share doc to the outside world (NextCloud's functionality). Did you figure this out? Anther topic: yeah, youtube is not something you can replace, but you can still use other frontends, thus the rabbithole recommendation engine doesn't affect you, nor the advertisements. On Android…

Apologizes from late reply. I have Raspberry Pi running Syncthing on LAN. I share my music, youtube-dl'd videos, podcasts etc. with my phone and laptops through it. Also sometimes I use it to share other documents, code etc. Works also as nice backup as the PI runs rsync with cron to store Syncthing contents to other HDD also.

Nextcloud runs on Digital Ocean droplet and I upload my photos there from phone, store contacts and share larger files with people. Currently Syncthing and Nextcloud do not communicate in anyway.

And yeah, youtube-dl has been lifesaver to escape that "rabbithole recommendation engine" as you awesomely put :D

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by niemenmaa »

dublinben wrote: post #186
niemenmaa wrote: post #104

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)…

Concerning Youtube, you may be interested in https://www.invidio.us/ which is an alternative front end. There are also extensions for Firefox which will automatically redirect any Youtube links you happen to come across to open on Invidious.

I ran into invidio.us as I started using straw-viewer[0] instead of youtube-viewer, and it uses individio.us api key. Didn't know that they had extensions to browsers though!

[0] https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by niemenmaa »

lyndons wrote: post #294
dublinben wrote: post #186

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Concerning Youtube, you may be interested in https://www.invidio.us/ which is an alternative front end. There are also extensions for Firefox which will automatically redirect any Youtube links you happen to come across to open on Invidious.

Invidio.us seems unusable. I tried to do simplest thing: create playlist - the only thing I'm really missing not having YT account (beside commenting). 1. First of all, it forced me to create Invidio.us account. Why it can't store everything in my cookie? 2. Next, I searched for a video typing its YT code "fVCAFvIq_F8" - no results. After several attempts I figured out that sometimes it does find it and sometimes it…

Ugh, sounds painful. Luckily my Youtube habbits are only watching videos, so I don't need playlists or other functionality.

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by niemenmaa »

cyrialize wrote: post #141
niemenmaa wrote: post #104

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)…

I'm a big fan of Fastmail. I agree with your point about YouTube. I'll try out the combo you have. I like YouTube for the videos on there and nothing else. I hate all the ads and how if you watch one video that is off topic from what you usually watch then the algorithm gets messed up and your recommended videos become way different.

Yea, Fastmail rocks! Only problem is that people don't know what it is and and as I don't live in english-speaking country I often have to spell it out.

I should buy "fastmile.com" and use that as an email alias - would solve a lot of problems, lol.

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by niemenmaa »

openfuture wrote: post #132
niemenmaa wrote: post #104

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)…

My list is: DuckDuckGo, Protonmail (tutanota also an option but want to self-host eventually, rather than switch to another provider), LineageOS (want to get to Linux phone asap, preferably NixOS), OSM, Youtube-dl and container tabs in ff, git, org-mode, qutebrowser and firefox.

Sounds good! What has been your experience with protonmail? I have been looking into NixOS also, but not for phone - are there any ongoing projects? Org-mode is also something I maybe one day learn to use especially if I make the jump into emacs!

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by niemenmaa »

client4 wrote: post #280
niemenmaa wrote: post #102

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I bought an used Xperia and installed Sailfish on it. LOVE IT! The gestures feel so natural way to use phone, ambients make it look badass and the program management is really creative. Android app support is what allowed me to transition because of banking apps etc. It's not 100% polished (especially the Android app usage) but at its worst works well enough and at it's best, the experience IMO tops any other phone O…

Agreed, if I could have Sailfish on a Huawei P40 I'd be ecstatic. As it stands using Here maps, built in browser, and basic phone tools get me 90% of the way. I'm cheating a little in my transition -- I've moved my must use apps over to my iPad pro. 2FA, Instagram (a drug habit I hope to kick later in the summer), Keybase, mobile check deposit, etc. I need to find a replacement for Google Keep (love how easy it is to…

For files/photos I recommend self-hosting NextCloud. The new version of SailfishOS containts native Nextcloud services(!!!). For 2FA you can install Android app Authy. Foil Auth is a native one, but haven't tested it though.

Feel you on Instagram habit. I de-social-mediaized (?) in late 2019 and haven't looked back, but it was tough!

Re: De-Googling: My Progress

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Post by niemenmaa »

jabroni_salad wrote: post #308
djaychela wrote: post #142

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Hi. I'm using fastmail (having left Gmail) - can you expand on why you stopped using the calendar?

I don't have anything against fastmail's calendar but I personally also regressed to a paper planner. I just find that I am more engaged with my planning this way, while the digital calendar sorta does its own thing and spits notifications at me for stuff I've forgotten about. I still use digital for work since it's collaborative but my personal stuff is all inscribed on a dead tree, now.

Exactly this :)
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