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Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

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Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

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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?

I don't think it matters if the product is selfhosted and opensource. That said, in my circles, people are wary about deploying software from specific countries even if they are selfhosted and opensource. I think part of the issue is that docker is the preferred more of deployment these days and sometimes it's not clear what does into the docker image (i.e when you don't build your own images, which you always should)

Re: 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.

I'm not sure if this will work. Google results are absolutely horrible for me, but not for my brother. It may be because they don't have a profile on me, but they have years of data on him. Using a proxy search engine may result in degraded results for someone who is currently getting good results from Google search.

Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

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Our company is degoogling by switching from angular to react, but of very profane causes: we don‘t trust them anymore based on their sunsetting history. Maybe that‘ll be the driving force.

We’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!

Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

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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.

This post is not just for you.

Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

#146
Just calendar automations to go!

Edit: 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

Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

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This post is not just for you.

No, but this reply was for me

Your first comment was “Why should I care?” and you keep repeating that. Obviously this for people who do care, and many do.
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