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Re: No More Google

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Post by Artur_Silva »

jason0597 wrote: post #34

These anti-Google discussions come and go on the front page of Hacker News, but I'd be curious to know how many people actually degoogle their lives drastically after reading such discussions and articles. I believe it's more of a case of "Oh my god, Google is so disgusting! Shame on Google!", and then people open up a new tab in Chrome to search on Google about their next restaurant destination as if nothing happene…

I did, and know a few that have. It's a slow, methodical process and I think as alternatives develop to each service, it will keep happening. These discussions help us distance ourselves one step at a time.

I've switched to brave as my browser (curious to see what the opinion is here of brave) DuckDuckGo as a default search engine.

Proton mail for most of my email, although I am looking for a better alternative.

I've backed up everything that I used to leave on drive, I although I still work on drive then download the files, I haven't found a good alternative here.

I have a OnePlus so oxygen os for Android.

Re: No More Google

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Post by 000000Coffee92 »

I question duck duck go. Why am I getting ads everywhere for ddg? How are they honestly making enough money to take up billboards and tons of other ads? Willing to change my mind, something just doesn't add up to me, someone please explain

Re: No More Google

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Post by rsync »

SoSoRoCoCo wrote: post #98
jason0597 wrote: post #34

These anti-Google discussions come and go on the front page of Hacker News, but I'd be curious to know how many people actually degoogle their lives drastically after reading such discussions and articles. I believe it's more of a case of "Oh my god, Google is so disgusting! Shame on Google!", and then people open up a new tab in Chrome to search on Google about their next restaurant destination as if nothing happene…

I've tried and failed. I've been with Gmail since day one and I'm too deep to change every address. It'll never go away. I even use DDG but keep going back to Google & Bing when I'm dissatisfied. Google Drive is better than Duplicity and Carbonite, and way easier than OneDrive. Google Voice has no competition.

"Google Drive is better than Duplicity and Carbonite"

This is an odd sentence because Carbonite is a provider and Duplicity is a backup software that you can point at many different providers.

So Google Drive might indeed be superior to Carbonite but that has nothing to do with Duplicity.

Further, there is almost universal consensus that borg is superior to duplicity. It has been called the "Holy Grail" of backups[1].

What you should probably be doing is:

1) using 'rclone' to move data between clouds[2] - either downloading it back to yourself or migrating it to a new cloud that you prefer.

2) using 'borg' to initiate, or replace, existing backups with encrypted backups that only you hold the key to.

As you may know, there is a cloud storage provider with this half-page privacy policy[3] that explicitly supports both borg and rclone[4] and has those tools built into their environment.

[1] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

[2] https://rclone.org/

[3] https://www.rsync.net/resources/regulatory/privacy.html

[4] https://www.rsync.net/products/rclone.html

Re: No More Google

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Post by fuy »

jason0597 wrote: post #34

These anti-Google discussions come and go on the front page of Hacker News, but I'd be curious to know how many people actually degoogle their lives drastically after reading such discussions and articles. I believe it's more of a case of "Oh my god, Google is so disgusting! Shame on Google!", and then people open up a new tab in Chrome to search on Google about their next restaurant destination as if nothing happene…

Definitely there's been some influence of these HN discussions on me. I started using Firefox and Duckduckgo and never really looked back. I also looked through different Google account settings and turned off whatever I could find related to personal data collection.

Gmail and Google Maps are two services I still rely on. There's a few good online map/navigation services where I live (Prague, Czechia), and I'm starting to migrate there - it takes time to kill a habit, though.

Gmail seems like the hardest thing to let go.

Oh, and of course deleting Facebook acc a few years ago has been one of the best decisions for my mental health ever.

Re: No More Google

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Post by dunnevens »

jason0597 wrote: post #34

These anti-Google discussions come and go on the front page of Hacker News, but I'd be curious to know how many people actually degoogle their lives drastically after reading such discussions and articles. I believe it's more of a case of "Oh my god, Google is so disgusting! Shame on Google!", and then people open up a new tab in Chrome to search on Google about their next restaurant destination as if nothing happene…

Today's latest round of Gmail lockout horror stories prompted me to stop being lazy and go through my various business and customer accounts. At least the important ones. And change them all to my email on my personal domain. I have a 15 yr old account so today's story about a guy losing his 15 yr account hit kinda hard.

I'm still using other Google services. Have a Chromebook I like, and still defaulting to their search. But at least I won't be at their mercy when it comes to email.

Re: No More Google

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Post by JoshTko »

I mean there really is no realistic replacement for youtube at the moment. The youtube breadth of content is at least two orders of magnitude above the next competitor.

Re: No More Google

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Post by mxskelly »

Some weird ones I'm seeing:

Airtable doesn't seem to be an alternative to Google Sheets, it seems like a much different application than a generalized spreadsheet that can do math operations.

Vimeo isn't really a replacement for YouTube, it's fundamentally different in the types of content it markets itself as being for.

The Google Docs alternatives all seem to be note taking applications (except for Zoho), not document editing software.

Dark Sky no longer offers an Android app, not really a good replacement for Google Weather.

Re: No More Google

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Post by dang »

pb7 wrote: post #84

Hacker News is incredibly biased against Google. There was recently an informal survey[0] in "Tech Twitter" (i.e. other technical people) regarding opinions about the top tech companies and Google scored second highest overall behind Apple, with something like 85-90% positivity overall across different questions. Facebook, for reference, was something like 35-40%. [0] https://coda.io/@sriram-krishnan/2020-state-of-th…

The universal experience is that Hacker News is incredibly biased against whatever you happen to favor.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

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