If a company is based in an "X eyes" nation", but the product is A) self-hosted and B) open source, does it matter that the organization the develops it is based in an "X eyes" nation?
Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
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Same here: Migrated all my gmail accounts to Fastmail. Took me two days. Migrated Google Docs to Dropbox. And replaced Google Sheets and Doc with a Microsoft subscription (MS Word and MS Excel). Then there‘s the search engine. I tried hard to replace Google Search with DDG, but I have to admit that Google gives me better search results. Still I would love to leave this also behind. Finally there is youtube for me. Ai…
If it's about privacy, you can still use google search through various proxy search engines as others have mentioned.
Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
#143Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
#144We’re a (by far) market leading B2C & B2B company in a “non-shithole” G7 country.
Yes, Facebook is not a real improvement, but at least they eat their own dog food!
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For one, Google could identify you since on Chrome you might have your name, address, and phone number saved for auto-fill, and sell your information to companies. They could sell your information to a certain company if their AI identifies you, for example, as a left-wing elderly male. I think the recent documentary that got deleted off Youtube explains it. Google also censors results a lot compared to Yahoo and Duc…
None of those things affect my life. They may be moral or principle concerns for you, but they're not for me.
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#146Edit: aww, they bought nest didn't they. Dammit Google you weirdo Borg creep.
Oh yeah people use their DNS to resolve my domains.. and every site that uses them for hosting.. and my work email..
oh wait youtube