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I've had a problem with trying to sign into my approved AdSense account the past few weeks. "We encountered an error. An engineer is looking into the issue." No way to contact them. I'm done with Google as well. I'm never going to use a service that doesn't provide a way to contact support.
I love that other companies have sustainable alternatives to Google services. But these articles looks more like hype train and doesn’t really add any new value for me. You are not building something new switching from one big corp to another small company that want to become another big company next day. Probably I’m getting old but I remember times when Google doesn’t exists. We had software for files, messages, ca…
I don't think anyone is considering themselves brave for decoupling themselves from the Google-sphere. Leaving social media is a far greater step with ramifications, real, imaginary or simply comparatively, that I would commend younger people for being brave should they take the step. It's something that's truly going against the grain.
I think the dearth of these type blog posts is to a) recognize that it's easy to encapsulate much of your digital reliance on Google and its services and therefore b) Real, or imaginary, it's quite difficult to take the step of decoupling from it and finally c) show that it is possible and less burdensome than people currently encapsulated believe it will be.
The authors slant on this is a little different from some others that we've seen on here - Google can shut down your entire online ecosystem with the click of a button should you infringe some arbitrary standards set in T&Cs riddled with legalese, designed for people to not read. A close call opened his eyes, and he made the steps to decouple from Google. I don't think he's looking for some to cry "Oh my, you are so brave!" for doing so.
A few months back, I switched my default browser to Bing, because Google was returning too many ads above the fold.
No big deal. Just fewer headaches without Google and Microsoft.
*edit: $6 per month so $72 per year
I recently switched to Fastmail and I'm very happy. The web and mobile apps are blazing fast and simple. My favorite feature is being able to add unlimited aliases which sends/forwards to whatever address I choose. This has enabled granular control over my inbox as I have receipts@mydomain, bills@mydomain, finance@mydomain, etc. If I want to try some service, I might create an alias. If they end up spamming too much,…
I get the email thing. And I've actually been moving critical accounts away from my personal Gmail for a while now. As for the rest, the services I use, I use them because they work better than any of the other options I have tried. I'll admit that that amounts to as substantial number of services.
I'm not entirely clear on what Nextcloud is. Is it meant for teams/organizations? What does the author mean by "Google Contacts → Fastmail → Nextcloud Contacts"?
I'm not entirely clear on what Nextcloud is. Is it meant for teams/organizations? What does the author mean by "Google Contacts → Fastmail → Nextcloud Contacts"?
All of these things work just as well for teams/orgs (including LDAP/SSO) as they do for a single user