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Leaving Google has actively improved my life

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Re: Leaving Google has actively improved my life

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Post by avazhi »

jhhh wrote: post #74
avazhi wrote: post #9

Not a fan of Google but I always find Gmail criticisms so weird. Like, what does this guy even mean about the algorithm sorting his inbox? Legit what the fuck is he talking about? Non junk mail goes to my inbox. Spam goes to spam. What am I missing? And speaking of spam, I have a bunch of proton mail accounts and outlook accounts and iCloud mail accounts and Gmail’s spam filter is easily the best. Like, it’s not even…

Google had a feature in gmail for a long time that automatically sorts your email into categories like Promotions, Social, Updates, Forums, etc. It was automated and fairly effective imo. If you try to disable the 'smart' features they will then disable this categorization retroactively and dump thousands of emails in your inbox and then nag you about turning it back on.

I’ve clearly had it turned off for years(?) and I’ve never had it nag about it.

Re: Leaving Google has actively improved my life

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Post by dec0dedab0de »

sharifhsn wrote: post #89
WarmWash wrote: post #37

The problem isn't Google. The problem is that people want a "free internet" without ads, and without any form of data harvesting. But they also don't want to pay any money, because the internet, as we all know, "is free". In 30 years, no one has figured this out. So I feel pretty confident in stating that it's either gonna be ads or payments. And if we switch to a payment model, then the internet becomes another syst…

Government can subsidize the poor. Remember Obamaphones? Just expand that idea.

...or the post office

Re: Leaving Google has actively improved my life

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Post by swiftcoder »

kyrra wrote: post #3

If you don't like the AI feature, Google at least lets you turn it off: https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/upda... Specifically in Gmail Settings: > Smart features: Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet - When you turn this setting on, you agree to let Gmail, Chat, and Meet use your content and activity in these products to provide smart features and personalize your experience. My wife…

Does this work outside of workspaces? I didn't think public gmail accounts had the option

Re: Leaving Google has actively improved my life

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Post by amelius »

WarmWash wrote: post #37

The problem isn't Google. The problem is that people want a "free internet" without ads, and without any form of data harvesting. But they also don't want to pay any money, because the internet, as we all know, "is free". In 30 years, no one has figured this out. So I feel pretty confident in stating that it's either gonna be ads or payments. And if we switch to a payment model, then the internet becomes another syst…

The internet is not free. Somebody is paying for those ads. And this somebody is us, collectively. And you know what? We are paying more than if we would pay for these services directly, because advertising companies are taking a cut. And on top of that we are paying with our data.

Re: Leaving Google has actively improved my life

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Post by dgacmu »

dangus wrote: post #63
Aurornis wrote: post #7

> After giving them a fair shot, I think I can now honestly say that Brave and DuckDuckGo are better than Google for >90% of searches I've had DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine for years and I couldn't disagree with this more. DuckDuckGo is fine for quickly getting to well known sites where I can't remember the URL, but it's objectively worse for trying to find everything from Reddit threads to Recipes. Their de…

Kagi has been an upgrade compared to DuckDuckGo for me. It’s hard to describe but the results are just better, and it loads incredibly fast. With DDG I always had this 20% wish to have Google back and frequently queries with !g bangs, not so much with Kagi.

Ditto. Basically the only thing I !g for now are maps and other geo-specific queries like the names of local restaurants or stores. Google still outperforms Kagi on those, but for nearly everything else I prefer the Kagi ad-free, ai-summary-onlt-if-requested results.

Re: Leaving Google has actively improved my life

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Post by dismalaf »

Pro tip: Gemini Flash is the new Google. Bypasses all the SEO and ad garbage.

Also I still haven't found anything that replaces Google for finding local, physical businesses.

And Gmail? I have it mainly to give to random businesses. I like Hey.com more but I don't want the utility company or some online service I barely care about cluttering it up.

Also there is no YouTube equivalent. They pay creators the most so creators are all on YouTube.

Re: Leaving Google has actively improved my life

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Post by LeonenTheDK »

kyleee wrote: post #93
elliotec wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kagi has tons of results from Reddit and they're always high and relevant. I don't know if this means they're doing it even though they're "not allowed to" or what but they definitely get it somehow.

Kagi is probably paying Google for those results?

When that news first went out, the article[0] I read at the time said that Kagi does purchase some of its indexing from Google.

[0] https://www.404media.co/email/4650b997-7cc3-4578-834c-7e663e...

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