Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

No More Google

nomoregoogle.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

221–230 of 400 posts

Re: No More Google

#221

Post by tasty_freeze »

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 never used Chrome except for checking compatibility for my websites. Firefox has been my main browser since 0.whatever.

I have my email hosted on fastmail, using their web interface. I don't use gmail.

I switched over to duck duck go three (?) years ago and have been happy with it. This was because of online advocacy that you are questioning.

google maps was the killer app for me, but I've been using the here wego app on my phone and it is 90% as good. the main irritation is that every time it does an update it seems to reset all of my preferences. This was because of online advocacy that you are questioning.

I'd be free of google except (and this is a big exception) I use an android phone. I don't want to participate in the apple ecosystem.

Re: No More Google

#222

Post by supernova87a »

macspoofing wrote: post #213
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'd be curious to know how many people actually degoogle their lives drastically after reading such discussions and articles I did get a wake-up call a few years ago when while writing an email in gmail, I accidentally moved a folder with 200 icons, into the new email window, as an attachment (I thought the icons in the folder were zipped up, but they weren't). I realized my mistake almost immediately and closed the…

Why does the attaching of 100s of files trigger an account lockout?

Re: No More Google

#223

Post by bntyhntr »

jagged-chisel wrote: post #131
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…

Personal anecdote, software engineer/techie for 25+yrs: I never react immediately. Unless directly affected by an event, I accumulate information over time and it will influence my decision making. Reacting is too disruptive to my own life, and those of the people I support (e.g. family.) Would an article like this make my family change? No. Many don't care; most don't understand the impact on themselves. My De-Googl…

I've also moved to firefox across all my devices. I don't use electron apps. I use google search and gmail both personally and at work.

I'm not really _trying_ to degooglify, I'm just degooglifying when the chance comes up. I'm also not hardcore enough to switch over the email on all my accounts, the people who contact me, etc. And I like free things. So one step at a random time it is.

Re: No More Google

#224

Post by mxuribe »

dmacvicar wrote: post #207
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 started a De-googling process. I documented how I replaced Search, GMail, Fit, Photos and Drive: https://duncan.codes/posts/2020-10-20-migrating-away-google-... This week I made progress with my phone, now running https://calyxos.org/ and using Google services only via https://microg.org/ for Maps and Cloud messaging. In my case, privacy is a reason, but I also consider a system inherently insecure if your account…

Thanks for sharing! Your blog post was very helpful and informative!!

Re: No More Google

#225

Post by layoric »

_iyig wrote: post #190
jagged-chisel wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personal anecdote, software engineer/techie for 25+yrs: I never react immediately. Unless directly affected by an event, I accumulate information over time and it will influence my decision making. Reacting is too disruptive to my own life, and those of the people I support (e.g. family.) Would an article like this make my family change? No. Many don't care; most don't understand the impact on themselves. My De-Googl…

I've been happy with Fastmail as a GMail alternative. Been slowly moving my logins and usernames from one to the other. Only (rather significant) complaint is that since 2018, they're affected by Australia's encryption backdoor bill.

Would you please be able to share a source for the encryption back door? I assume they can access email using the usual court order process in AU but worried this will turn into a free for all like ISP data retention..

I made the move to FastMail about 4 years ago, would hate to change again, is such a pain. Luckily I did opt for my own domain name at least which should make those changes easier if I do it again.

Re: No More Google

#226

Post by macspoofing »

supernova87a wrote: post #222
macspoofing wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I'd be curious to know how many people actually degoogle their lives drastically after reading such discussions and articles I did get a wake-up call a few years ago when while writing an email in gmail, I accidentally moved a folder with 200 icons, into the new email window, as an attachment (I thought the icons in the folder were zipped up, but they weren't). I realized my mistake almost immediately and closed the…

Why does the attaching of 100s of files trigger an account lockout?

Why indeed.

Re: No More Google

#227

Post by tpxl »

macspoofing wrote: post #213
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'd be curious to know how many people actually degoogle their lives drastically after reading such discussions and articles I did get a wake-up call a few years ago when while writing an email in gmail, I accidentally moved a folder with 200 icons, into the new email window, as an attachment (I thought the icons in the folder were zipped up, but they weren't). I realized my mistake almost immediately and closed the…

What, adding 200 attachments to a mail suspends your account?!

Re: No More Google

#228

Post by avsteele »

I have tried to use FF for year now and I am about to dump it. I want Mozilla to succeed, but there's no way I cold recommend it to friends/family, which is the major thing.

Non-major websites, and even big name ones like Intuit's (quickbooks etc) are constantly having problems. I had to go into settings: just to get into bitbucket in the past week because of some 'referrer' issue

On mobile, it just crashes constantly (e.g. on twitter).

Re: No More Google

#229

Post by kseifried »

What are the options (ideally Linux based) to synchronize files and data (e.g. contacts) between Google Drive, iCloud and Microsoft OneDrive? I guess we have to do RAICP (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Cloud Providers) now? I get that I can do the clients/rsync dance, but I also want contacts and higher level data.

Re: No More Google

#230

Post by farisjarrah »

fencepost wrote: post #203
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 haven't bothered degoogling, but I made a conscious decision probably 7 or 8 years ago to not depend on it for anything important. Heck, I even have my own third party based location tracking that dates back to when I was using that for billing clients - IIRC from one of those times when Google killed off a service I was using. The disappearance of my Google account would be annoying (I'm using an android phone if…

You can export your Google contancts fairly trivially:

https://support.google.com/contacts/answer/7199294?co=GENIE....

Post reply on HN