If it helps any, Feedly accepts YouTube channels as valid URLs for feeds. Getting YouTube in an RSS reader is great; now I can keep videos for later simply by keeping them unread, rather than whatever Google's latest UI is.
How to leave Google and why
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Re: How to leave Google and why
#52Re: How to leave Google and why
#53I've read many stupid posts about de-googling for various reasons. Mostly by people who also want me to follow them on social media platforms, whose data collection obviously doesn't matter, because... But this one really amazes me: > Recently Google changed their policy for storing photos. Starting from July 2021 you won't have unlimited High Quality storage as before rather than 15GB limit. This is still okay in te…
1. Make photo storage free, forever!
2. Kill all competitors
3. "It's not cost effective for this to be free, new captive google users."
Re: How to leave Google and why
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds nice but this approach is unlikely to ever get me off Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, and Chrome and those are also the ones that likely give them the most info about me.
It might work for some of those: Maps - They massively hiked API prices a couple years ago, literally by orders of magnitude (a kind of breaking change?). They've also broken a bunch of user-facing features and made it slower; it seems a common complaint here that maps now is a worse product than it was 5 years ago. Search - They seem to have gone all-in on AI, and I've seen a lot of people complaining here that it's…
So what would the solution for Android phone be? Buy a new Android phone or buy an iPhone? They are very similar from the perspective of your data being owned by the phone OS maker.
Re: How to leave Google and why
#55One of the biggest problems is probably that there's almost no way of using an android phone and purchase apps without a google account (which will be then linked to purchases and activities).
>One of the biggest problems is probably that there's almost no way of using an android phone and purchase apps without a google account
Get an iPhone then? Or a feature-phone?
Re: How to leave Google and why
#56I'd love to leave!
As soon as someone comes up with a half decent hosted calendar service that's half as good as Google Calendar.
People like to give GCal a lot of shit while comparing it with local apps; there's very few hosted services that are so versatile.
Re: How to leave Google and why
#57> Some people say "I have nothing to hide, I don't care" which is essentialy [sic] ignoring basic human right and making this right worthless to you and very precious to others.
As ever, this isn't to do with rights. The government isn't forcing you to do this. Neither is Google.
Re: How to leave Google and why
#58Don't delete your account, that means giving up control over it. Never log in.
Re: How to leave Google and why
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3. Goto 1 Or you'll be stuck with broken services.
Fortunately the cost of migrating to a competitor is often not much greater than the cost of migrating to Google's newer offering, e.g. Tensorflow->Tensorflow2 vs Tensorflow->Pytorch, or Angular->Angular2 vs Angular->React.
Angular -> React, presumably.
Re: How to leave Google and why
#60> Some people say "I have nothing to hide, I don't care" which is essentialy [sic] ignoring basic human right and making this right worthless to you and very precious to others. As ever, this isn't to do with rights. The government isn't forcing you to do this. Neither is Google.
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