Using YouTube with Firefox Containers is in no way anonymous. Instead try to use it with the Tor Browser (also checkout the Invidious project).
No way, Google constantly blocks TOR with tons of their captcha.
What I Use Instead of Google
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Re: What I Use Instead of Google
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Google is such an insane value. $5 you get GSuite, auth, drive, chat, meet, and a bunch of things. ... > Stick with Google. It's not fashionable but a bargain. You're commodicized on the internet unless you run your own services. Don't let any marketing fool you. You also don't get any useful customer service for that $5. I know companies that charge less but provide customer service. So what you value isn't what o…
That's one of the drawbacks of Google in general. I think if you want to buy Ads and have a big account with them, perhaps you can talk to a human.
Also if you are a big cloud customer.
I know, I consulted for one.
That said, it wasn't reliable.
One day: two sw engineers onsite, we recreated the problem, they went back to yake care of it.
Another day: what seemed like a student from a third world country on a very cheap helpdesk asking irrelevant questions instead of reading the description.
Another day again: answer by "head of " acknowledging the issue and pointing to a fix coming , only IIRC the fix didn't arrive, at least not at the time that person said.
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#83This is a business opportunity to provide services at a minimal cost for people. Say 1$ per month per service. Email - 1$ Calendar - 1$ Document Collab - 1$ Each addon a calculated minimalist approach to each. I still recall what gmail was when it was invite only back in the early aughts. I would still utilize that gmail client. I do NOT need gmail as it is today. And I would certainly pay 1$ per month for that servi…
Mailbox.org offers email, calendar, and some docs/storage functionality for 2.5E/m .
Re: What I Use Instead of Google
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Office 365 (or Microsoft 365 or whatever they want to call it today) is also good value. ~$5/month gives you more or less the same as Google where it comes to email/calendar and 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage. It can go even cheaper at ~$2/month for just basic email (on the "Kiosk" plan) if you don't need cloud storage and just need hosted e-mail. Regarding your counterpoint, I disagree. It's not about ProtonMail clai…
> it's just that their business model is to be selling hosted e-mail services Does anyone know if pro/business accounts with Google GSuite have better privacy than free accounts? Another counterpoint to my original post is - you can call someone at ProtonMail, can't do that with Google.
> Does anyone know if pro/business accounts with Google GSuite have better privacy than free accounts?
Yes, the GSuite data is separated from non-GSuite and is goverened by a different ToS. This includes this data not being used for advertising, conforming to different deletion requirements and more. Check out the GSuite ToS for details, we looked into this awhile ago.
Re: What I Use Instead of Google
#85I did something similar a few weeks ago and found that https://rclone.org/ worked for me to automatically port Google Photos data to a Nextcloud instance with WebDAV. That being said, it cannot pull the original quality images, only the compressed version.
Perkeep devs built a tool to grab the originals: https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp#gphotos-cdp
I'm afraid Google will lock me out of my account if I use anything like this?
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#86> Maps → Apple maps If Apple were a different company, it would've made maps available for use on web browsers and non-Apple devices. That could also help in a more rapid improvement of maps as opposed to the mostly-useless state it's been in (except for a few countries and regions in certain countries that Apple likes and works more on). > and still a little YouTube (anonymously in a Firefox container) If a Firefox…
I would probably use Apple Maps more if I could download maps for offline use as I can with Google Maps.
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#87I prefer using the best technology over endless virtue signaling.
I'd take a technology hit to break from Google, but the McMorality of the author was certainly nauseating.
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#88> Maps → Apple maps If Apple were a different company, it would've made maps available for use on web browsers and non-Apple devices. That could also help in a more rapid improvement of maps as opposed to the mostly-useless state it's been in (except for a few countries and regions in certain countries that Apple likes and works more on). > and still a little YouTube (anonymously in a Firefox container) If a Firefox…
> If Apple were a different company, it would've made maps available for use on web browsers and non-Apple devices. That could also help in a more rapid improvement of maps as opposed to the mostly-useless state it's been in (except for a few countries and regions in certain countries that Apple likes and works more on).
Try https://satellites.pro/plan/world_map# - you can switch between Apple Maps, OSM, Mapbox, Google Maps, Yandex and Esri
Re: What I Use Instead of Google
#89Instead of Google Analytics look at Matomo. Since you are self-hosting Nextcloud, standing up a self-hosted Matomo instance won't be difficult. https://matomo.org
Re: What I Use Instead of Google
#90Here is a similar write up on how to exit google