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The article talks mostly about e-mail and search, but you know what's still the best social network on the interwebs? E-mail. When I dumped social media two years ago, I gave my "friends" my e-mail address. Now, instead of getting an endless stream of reposted political image captions and photos of people's lunches I get messages about the things that are actually worth seeing: news about family, friends, life events…
Federated social media could be the solution.
I thought this was an optional setting. It shouldn’t be saving or collecting this data if you have that turned off in your Google account. Hope so!
Google is relatively straight forward to replace. Inexpensive 80% solutions exist for most of their services. Maps is a notable exception. As for Facebook you're fighting against the greatest network effects in the history of mankind.
http://asciimoo.github.io/searx/admin/installation.html
One search is sent to multiple search engines and results shown as one. Just go to settings and select qwant and ddg.
I'm actually building an alternative to Facebook for people fed up with Facebook and just want to stay in touch with people and not much more. I would go as far as calling it a glorified address book with some extra features for having up-to-date contact details for everyone that has granted you the privilege of having them and a very cut down version of the feed. Which brings me to the question of monetisation. I do…
Why are Google and Facebook in the same jail? What breach of privacy is Google guilty of?
Why are Google and Facebook in the same jail? What breach of privacy is Google guilty of?
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