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Re: No More Google

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Post by paxys » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 10:12 PM UTC

Normal_gaussian wrote: post #112

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…

Or perhaps those on your twitter are incredibly biased towards Google? Twitter is repeatedly presented as a general sentiment test, yet this is just not true. Also, what on Earth is "Tech Twitter"? My forays (now abandoned as fruitless) into twitter show it as dispersed as any other social media group - if not more so. I can't imagine anyone being able to run a cross-sectional survey of 'tech' over twitter without ma…

The biggest anti-Google sentiment on this site is always that they keep shutting down services, but the entire reason they do so is that those services were never popular among "normal" users. Such users also care a lot less about online privacy and data sharing.

Re: No More Google

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Post by macspoofing » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 10:13 PM UTC

tpxl wrote: post #227

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…

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

You tell me.

Re: No More Google

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Post by mceachen » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 10:13 PM UTC

NewOrderNow wrote: post #134

Anyone know of a decent alternative to Google Photos? That is my last hold out

If you want to self-host, you're welcome to try out PhotoStructure: https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/

Re: No More Google

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Post by mxuribe » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 10:13 PM UTC

NewOrderNow wrote: post #134

Anyone know of a decent alternative to Google Photos? That is my last hold out

Is your focus area for mere hosting of photos (such as for availability/backup)? Or, are you more interested in being able to share tour photos? Is there a particular feature that is most important for you related to a G Photos alternative? I think if you post that, perhaps viable suggestions might be offered that would be best for you; instead of some general "try XYZ because it is randomly better!" sort of comment.

Re: No More Google

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Post by kingnothing » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 10:14 PM UTC

Is there an alternative for Google Photos other than iCloud?

Re: No More Google

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 10:14 PM UTC

(2018)

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078030

Re: No More Google

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Post by powersnail » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 10:16 PM UTC

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'm mostly not on Google, apart from an occasional web search (DDG still not 100% replacing Google) and Youtube.

There is just no replacement for YouTube for now. 99% of I'd like to watch is there, most of which I can't even find a place to buy.

I guess this is where it's hard: even if an alternative is built to better YouTube on every technical aspect, the contents are just not there.

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Tangentially, I don't believe it's possible to pressure Google to do anything by not using a Google product, as long as the majority of the users, who are not at all technical, don't care.

It's practically quite meaningless, apart from making myself feel better.

Re: No More Google

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Post by _iyig » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 10:18 PM UTC

layoric wrote: post #225

_iyig wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Source: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/fastmail-loses-customers-face...

Re: No More Google

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Post by npteljes » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 10:19 PM UTC

chiefalchemist wrote: post #140

Of the browsers listed, which if any do multiple users? I silo my clients / projects by giving them their own instance (read: user) of Chrome. If I could get past that then the rest would fall into place.

Firefox can. Type about:profiles in the address bar and try it out!

Re: No More Google

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Post by kerng » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 10:20 PM UTC

I might be one of the lucky ones who never bought into the Google eco-system - even still have a Hotmail email address and it's getting cool again now that many are getting more upset with Google and their business model.