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Re: No More Google

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Post by redvenom »

Igelau wrote: post #8

Anyone using any of these email services? I'm not looking for a workplace product, I just want to be able to get myself out of Gmail reliance and gradually get my family away from it too.

I use GMX as one of my email providers. The web interface isn't that bad, but I have it set up with IMAP and it works just like anything else. The front page of GMX is a news site. It's more old-school with folders rather than tags and priority boxes but I never liked those anyway.

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Post by FreedomToCreate »

The issue here is ecosystem. Googles advantage is everything syncs together across there platform seamlessly. Going the no google routes fragments my ability to share photos, share docs and sheets, access easily across platforms.The trade off is being locked out and tracking (which you can limit in privacy settings).

Edit: also want to add that there is also a risk with using smaller platforms as they have a high chance of going bust. I employ a strategy of keeping files on both google, iCloud and a personal drive to have redundancy in case of issues. Of course this does make sense if you want to be absolutely invisible

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

skrebbel wrote: post #15

Wow, I didn't know about https://wego.here.com and both the UX and the map design are miles ahead of Google's, to my taste. Nice!

HERE used to be the de facto choice for maps on Windows Mobile, and has always been great to use. I think Bing Maps also used their data predominantly as well.

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Post by kgwxd »

KarimDaghari wrote: post #11

Honestly, for me, the hardest one to replace is YouTube. I think the best I can do is to create an account specifically for it + use firefox containers.

Do you post content there or just subscribe and/or comment? If just sub/comment, you can use an RSS reader to "subscribe" to channels and give up commenting.

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Post by Splendor »

Igelau wrote: post #8

Anyone using any of these email services? I'm not looking for a workplace product, I just want to be able to get myself out of Gmail reliance and gradually get my family away from it too.

Another happy Fastmail user here.

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Post by redvenom »

KarimDaghari wrote: post #11

Honestly, for me, the hardest one to replace is YouTube. I think the best I can do is to create an account specifically for it + use firefox containers.

I think there is also a difference between lock in and just using a service. If your primary email is Gmail, it's hard to switch and it's worse than YouTube. With YouTube, if Google decides to lock you out, you can more easily move to PeerTube or another service. I also recommend that if you create content for YouTube, you also upload it elsewhere.

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Post by randlet »

skrebbel wrote: post #15

Wow, I didn't know about https://wego.here.com and both the UX and the map design are miles ahead of Google's, to my taste. Nice!

It looks nice and seems very fast but doesn't seem like it has walking & biking paths in my area.
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