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I thought he switched to self hosted, open source alternatives. What a silly article.
There is more kinds of crazy than RMS. Also mail server seems self hosted.
Given his reference to downloading apps from the Play store and Amazon store... it sure sounds like he's still using an Android device.
So what?
It doesn't make much sense that someone would go through all this effort to ditch a company and still use one of their flagship products. That would be like me swearing off Apple and still carrying an iPhone.
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generally an honest and upstanding ad network Unless you happen to be a small guy and fall on the wrong side of their political beliefs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5438797
That is neither dishonest nor down standing, that is them annoyingly not doing business with someone.
Instead of giving away your personal information to one place, why not give it away to 10 or 20 places?
I think it makes sense to use the best tool for the job. At least when it comes to email, maps, and search I would argue that Gmail, Google Maps, and Google are the best services by a long shot.
Not to knock Duck Duck Go, but it would drive me crazy to have to do multiple searches or go through more results just to find something I could find on Google in the first half of the first page of results.
Sure I would get used to it eventually, but it's not worth losing my own time/productivity over.
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generally an honest and upstanding ad network Unless you happen to be a small guy and fall on the wrong side of their political beliefs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5438797
That's not their political beliefs, that's their lawyers making a risk vs reward decision. Why is everybody so quick to attribute things to malice when they can be explained by simple pragmatism?
To me the point is that when you start arbitrarily enforcing rules against some people (small guys) and not others (big guys) it smacks of hypocrisy. Maybe you can explain how it was just blind process -- it still stinks.
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It sounds like it was a "google divorce" and not necessarily a "facebook divorce." Are you advocating for a more broad "social networking divorce"?
I'm thinking that leaving Google due to privacy concerns, while keeping Facebook seems... odd.
Emails and web searches in particular can be pretty incriminating if made public.
I'm more curious what the author uses for his self-hosted email. None of the IMAP servers I've seen so far are particularly stellar.
I use it with Postfix, using Dovecot's virtual domain support to host various domains/mailboxes. Dovecot with sieve sorts mail server side. It's fast and works incredibly well.
I don't understand why everyone is so big on switching away from Google these days. Some of my coworkers have been doing this as well. Instead of giving away your personal information to one place, why not give it away to 10 or 20 places? I think it makes sense to use the best tool for the job. At least when it comes to email, maps, and search I would argue that Gmail, Google Maps, and Google are the best services by…
I couldn't sign up for a YouTube account without creating a Google+ account with my full name. Why should all the videos I watch be made public ? Likewise I can't search today without being constantly asked to sign in.
I want the old Google back.
No matter how ahead-of-the-curve google innovation can be, I just don't think it's worth it to sell our souls to one company for the sake of convenience.