From the title, I initially thought that the author was a Google employee, and explained how to leave Google (is it that difficult?) :D
How to leave Google and why
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Re: How to leave Google and why
#12From the title, I initially thought that the author was a Google employee, and explained how to leave Google (is it that difficult?) :D
I know a more than one that have been struggling with it so apparently yes.
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#131. The title mentions only Google. 2. The article then talks about both Facebook and Google and links to some of Facebook's most egregious incidents like data sharing, Cambridge Analytica, WhatsApp. 3. The article then proceeds to tell you how to leave Google. It just comes across in a bad way. Don't mix up the two companies - they aren't equivalent. And if you want to give advice on leaving Google, do that instead o…
I agree, Google is bad enough on its own, no need to compare. It gets less negative press compared to Facebook, probably because they managed their public relations better, but if you really look, you will find plenty of reasons not to share all your data with them.
(Having said that, Facebook is of course just as bad as Google if not worse)
Re: How to leave Google and why
#141. The title mentions only Google. 2. The article then talks about both Facebook and Google and links to some of Facebook's most egregious incidents like data sharing, Cambridge Analytica, WhatsApp. 3. The article then proceeds to tell you how to leave Google. It just comes across in a bad way. Don't mix up the two companies - they aren't equivalent. And if you want to give advice on leaving Google, do that instead o…
I agree, Google is bad enough on its own, no need to compare. It gets less negative press compared to Facebook, probably because they managed their public relations better, but if you really look, you will find plenty of reasons not to share all your data with them. (Having said that, Facebook is of course just as bad as Google if not worse)
> probably because they managed their public relations better
It's not only PR. Google haven't violated their users' privacy to the extent Facebook have, it's not even close.
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#15I've read many stupid posts about de-googling for various reasons. Mostly by people who also want me to follow them on social media platforms, whose data collection obviously doesn't matter, because...
But this one really amazes me:
> Recently Google changed their policy for storing photos. Starting from July 2021 you won't have unlimited High Quality storage as before rather than 15GB limit. This is still okay in terms of space but the politics behind it is just disgusting. Google was effectively feeding it's photo AI algorithms for face detection and tagging for years now using user data obtained by giving up the service for free. Now when these algorithms got so good and it's almost impossible to make them better and Google don't need users anymore they switched to make some money from the service.
This guy is salty that Google doesn't provide their platform for free. Aside from that, of course, some ramblings about privacy and stuff. But seriously, complaining for not getting something for free. The entitlement is strong here. I'd go as far and use the author's words here and say it's disgusting. And the privacy arguments are BS, just look at those pretty Google Fonts he uses to tell you how bad Google is.
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#16Author missed a spot, still using fonts by Google, and their MX.
oops :))
Re: How to leave Google and why
#17From the title, I initially thought that the author was a Google employee, and explained how to leave Google (is it that difficult?) :D
I know a more than one that have been struggling with it so apparently yes.
I once got lost in the wetlands behind the Mountain View campus whilst trying to find an off-road bike route to Stanford and just ended up back where I started, but muddier. This is a probably a metaphor for something.
Re: How to leave Google and why
#18How to leave Google as a developer, the easy way:
1. Any time Google deprecates a service/library you're using or breaks it with backwards-incompatible changes, move to a non-Google equivalent.
2. Don't adopt any new Google services/libraries.
And viola, before you know it you'll be Google free.
Re: How to leave Google and why
#19I've read many stupid posts about de-googling for various reasons. Mostly by people who also want me to follow them on social media platforms, whose data collection obviously doesn't matter, because... But this one really amazes me: > Recently Google changed their policy for storing photos. Starting from July 2021 you won't have unlimited High Quality storage as before rather than 15GB limit. This is still okay in te…
Please don't shoot the messenger. Many stupid posts earlier doesn't mean this one is also. You know he is salty? Any evidence? "some rambling ?" who decides? "Entitlement is strong" or your need to judge is stronger? "privacy arguments are BS" again where is reasoning?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> just use iPhone, FDroid or a dumb phone, duh Honestly, we need a optimised non-custom rom alternative to smartphone operating systems, which is not iOS or google/android. While the custom-rom development has come a long way, it's to fiddly, often lacks long-term support, shortcomings in terms of stability (network/singal disruptions, battery usage, crashes, bricks)and even privacy.
The 2005's rang, they want their phones back. My Sony Ericsson 500i was my edgy love of my teenage college years. Every provider had their own phone with their own firmware. Android appeared and nearly-all of them got in to bed with Google. And so here we are, living in a world of a million different sized rectangles; all running Android. > Honestly, we need a optimised non-custom rom alternative to smartphone operat…
Symbian was not it.
Meego was it.
Nokia messed up by not actually sharing it properly like the Android Alliance or whatever it was called did.
Nokia went under and Android is everywhere :-(