I also blogged a fortnight ago about the same degoogling process. https://blog.flurdy.com/2020/08/degoogling.html
My problem as I mention is that I am at the same time regoogling...
Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
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#32I dropped all google services and it wasn’t that hard. The most tedious part is moving accounts from your gmail to your new email (I switched to using my own domain backed by fastmail). Even with a password manager and a list of all my accounts this took me an entire day. You also learn how terrible most non-software company account management is. On a lot of sites changing email is impossible. On some it lets you do…
I did the same several years ago. Dropped a GMail account I had for ~10+ years and switched to Fastmail. I hard deleted the account. In hindsight I wish I hadn’t _deleted_ it but I’ve really only run into that on a very small number of occasions.
I too switched to Fastmail and have been happy. I have a new Google account I use with YouTube and very occasionally Google Docs/Sheets, but I run it in a container tab in Firefox.
If you have a password manager and have been using it for awhile it makes things a lot easier since you can identify what you have tied to the account. I had over 100 sites tied to my GMail account and was able to mostly clean it up in a Saturday.
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#33Looking at this list, I would propose that it's easier to regulate and tax Google than it is to free ourselves of it via the private sector.
That’s a possible solution if you’re in the US, and trust the regulators, but what of the rest of the world?
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#34The list of alternatives just makes me lose hope of cutting out Google. They are lightyears ahead of the alternatives in so many categories.
I use DDG for search full time and I’ve found that I need to use !g less and less often. For the times I do use !g I am finding myself increasingly disappointed in the results. I think Google is losing the war against spamdexing [1] and I think the search industry is ripe for disruptive innovation. I have seen and participated in a number of discussions here on HN about the potential for a new search engine that elim…
I think you forgot to expand your [1]
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#35I like the irony of hosting this site on a Google-operated TLD.
Especially one that Google weren't even going to let the rest of us use (an entire "generic" top-level domain to use as a globally-routable in-house domain...) and only capitulated after it seemed like the pressure on ICANN might cause them to Do Something About That.
Have context? Algolia search isn't working well for me, or I don't know which keywords would lead me to the story.
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#36I dropped all google services and it wasn’t that hard. The most tedious part is moving accounts from your gmail to your new email (I switched to using my own domain backed by fastmail). Even with a password manager and a list of all my accounts this took me an entire day. You also learn how terrible most non-software company account management is. On a lot of sites changing email is impossible. On some it lets you do…
Google's purpose is to help the NSA circumvent congress. Google is here to stay until further notice.
This thread is filled with juicy dumb comments, but you certainly win.
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#37The list of alternatives just makes me lose hope of cutting out Google. They are lightyears ahead of the alternatives in so many categories.
I agree in some cases that the open source alternatives aren’t good enough, so I’ve done a mix of using things on this list, and switching to Apple alternatives (when needed). Got an iPhone, and using some of the Apple things has made it much easier.
I recently de-googled myself almost completely (still have a couple domain names with them, still use YouTube). Yeah Apple has their own issues going on too, but I am just happy to be mostly cut out from the Google madness.
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#38I dropped all google services and it wasn’t that hard. The most tedious part is moving accounts from your gmail to your new email (I switched to using my own domain backed by fastmail). Even with a password manager and a list of all my accounts this took me an entire day. You also learn how terrible most non-software company account management is. On a lot of sites changing email is impossible. On some it lets you do…
Google's purpose is to help the NSA circumvent congress. Google is here to stay until further notice.
I hereby provide notice they can feel free to go away.
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#39It's becoming increasingly difficult to avoid Google with the upcoming Fuchsia OS designed to work everywhere and replace Android and also Google's upcoming SoC.
I will never, ever install Fuchsia if I can help it. Replacing one Google Spyware OS with another doesn't solve anything.
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#40For those into self-hosting, there's some really up and coming options these days - Cloudron, Yunohost, homelabos. Sandstorm also seems some activity again these days (come on guys!). Honestly, it really is not that hard to degoogle these days especially if you are a techie.