I'm sticking with Google so that their killer robots will have information about me and hopefully know that I'm friendly.
How To De-Google-ify Your Life: The Complete Guide To Leaving Google
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#32I'd say that notes is better than Textedit if you're looking for something dead simple. Simply because it cross syncs to all your Apple devices (considering you're in the Apple ecosystem). So I end up starting blog posts on my phone and finishing them on my computer as if they were synced with dropbox or something. Mavericks added notebooks so you have some simple organisation. The lack of formatting just lets me get back to writing.
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#33Ironically, I find the hardest Google product for me to ditch is Maps. DuckDuckGo is a decent alternative to search and I use both, but there isn't anything else at the level of google maps.
Still, only using three google things (third being youtube - don't have an account, but watch stuff) isn't so bad.
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#34Ironically, I find the hardest Google product for me to ditch is Maps. DuckDuckGo is a decent alternative to search and I use both, but there isn't anything else at the level of google maps. Still, only using three google things (third being youtube - don't have an account, but watch stuff) isn't so bad.
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#35Regarding Gmail: I've been using Google Apps for Domains for years, among other things to host my private family domain. All family members, wife, kids, have email accounts there.
Around New Year my 7-year old son's account was permanently suspended. Even I as the superadmin of the domain can't unlock it, there is no way to get the data out. What happened is he tried to register G+. No, our young kids don't have G+ or FB accounts. They are not allowed to and we monitor how they use Internet. But it's hard to avoid running into G+ these days. So my son clicked on a link somewhere. It turned out that a person younger than 13 years are not allowed to have a google account. Period. It's a violation of their TOS. Even though outside of USA, GMail or Google apps for domains never explicitely asked you for your age. Not before G+, and even now only if you register your G+ profile.
Bottom line: I have no other choice than to de-google-ify my life. Google forced me to do it. I know you can lie about age of your kid but doing so is risky. See above.
I have a cronjob that runs every hour to backup all Gmail inboxes to a IMAP server (dovecot) so in my case it's not a disaster. But imagine if I wasn't so paranoid about Google...
Also as they say if the service is free you are their product. These days everywhere every time when I can I choose the paid option.