What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? • Hacker News Board

Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

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Post by prophesi » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 4:44 PM UTC

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #4

Why are Google and Facebook in the same jail? What breach of privacy is Google guilty of?

Historically speaking, Google is the one who innovates ground-breaking privacy-violating technology, and Facebook copies them a year or two later with much less tact.

Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

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Post by Damogran6 » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 4:44 PM UTC

Increasingly, all Google is learning about me is the junk mail. I get 150 emails a day and one legitimate one everty two to three days. The rest of it is Youtube notifications and newegg sales.

Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

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Post by drewmol » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 4:44 PM UTC

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #2

DuckDuckGo is really changing my world. It’s like I’m seeing a whole other internet I was missing before with Google search results. I get much more relevant answers and less SEO targeted garbage that says all the right words usually while saying nothing at all. I was skeptical, but I encourage you to give it a try if you haven’t before.

Using DDG with Bangs ( add '!G' to a search string to query google, '!W' for Wikipedia, etc.) has really eased my transition.

Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

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Post by rezeroed » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 4:44 PM UTC

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #4

Why are Google and Facebook in the same jail? What breach of privacy is Google guilty of?

"About – Senthil Rajasekharan

Senthil Rajasekharan is a standup comedian from Minneapolis/St. Paul who started doing comedy in 2010."

Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

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Post by sbmthakur » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 4:45 PM UTC

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #4

Why are Google and Facebook in the same jail? What breach of privacy is Google guilty of?

Here you go:

https://spreadprivacy.com/why-use-duckduckgo-instead-of-goog...

Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

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Post by okasaki » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 4:45 PM UTC

300bps wrote: post #3

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #2

DuckDuckGo is really changing my world. It’s like I’m seeing a whole other internet I was missing before with Google search results. I get much more relevant answers and less SEO targeted garbage that says all the right words usually while saying nothing at all. I was skeptical, but I encourage you to give it a try if you haven’t before.

And the first page of results isn’t mostly ads.

... yet,

Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

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Post by sbmthakur » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 4:46 PM UTC

rezeroed wrote: post #14

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #4

Why are Google and Facebook in the same jail? What breach of privacy is Google guilty of?

"About – Senthil Rajasekharan Senthil Rajasekharan is a standup comedian from Minneapolis/St. Paul who started doing comedy in 2010."

How's that information relevant here?

Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

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Post by iamdamian » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 4:47 PM UTC

Here’s a question: How do we adopt a replacement and avoid creating an identical situation in 10 years?

I wonder how many people donate to/pay for/enable ads on DuckDuckGo, for example.

Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

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Post by laurex » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 4:47 PM UTC

(As someone working on an actual alternative to Facebook,) this article seems to mention FB but only really present Google alternatives. That said, I've switched all my default search engines to DDG, which would be even more great if I didn't have to type -yelp for most of my searches.

Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?

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Post by sp332 » Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 4:47 PM UTC

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #4

Why are Google and Facebook in the same jail? What breach of privacy is Google guilty of?

The ad network?