Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself

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Post by Leewen » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 1:40 PM UTC

Cider9986 wrote: post #13

Leewen wrote: post #7

It’s cool ,but I can’t to fucking lazy

Don't have to do everything at once. https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/why-privacy-matters/

I known this is me. Just here for help

Re: Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself

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Post by zloy88 » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 4:10 PM UTC

Best Google Replacement for me is proton.me - use it for many years already. It also solves the Google Photos problem.

Re: Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself

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Post by imhoguy » Sun, Jul 12, 2026, 4:34 PM UTC

delduca wrote: post #4

danshipt wrote: post #3

I liked it until the part about paying for yt. I prefer to not use yt again than to pay for it and make google even richer

I agree, but it's quite hard not to pay for YouTube when you have kids and they watch it on television.

I don't pay. First they learned how to use mute button on rc, then they stopped using YT because of too many ads.

Re: Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself

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Post by 01jonny01 » Sun, Jul 12, 2026, 6:59 PM UTC

I De-Youtubed myself by switching over to skipvids.com

Never looked back

Re: Tell HN: I De-Googled Myself

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Post by dyingkneepad » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 4:40 PM UTC

"De-googling" is a spectrum, and I was pretty proud of being farther and farther away (Android and Youtube being the main resistance). But recently, I find myself using Gemini more and more often... I hate that I am more relying on it, but Gemini seems significantly smarter than the other free alternatives for the stuff that I do :(. But Gemini has been extremely helpful for me.