What this person is trying to get away from requires not using the internet in any way.
Agree, choose another profession dude.
My divorce from Google - One year later
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Re: My divorce from Google - One year later
#62Reading his service-by-service comments paints a much less favorable picture of his Google "divorce": Search: Push (possible win with DuckDuckGo booleans, possible loss with Craigslist search) Mail: Push (mainly using own server, Yahoo vs Gmail not an issue). Maps: Acceptable, but significant loss. ("Mapquest is ok. Yahoo! Maps are my go-to" and "Yahoo! Maps UI isn't very good, but the maps are quite usable"). Music…
I find Here.com to be better than Google Maps FWIW. Outlook.com to be better than Gmail. It's weird because product-for-product, Google has great web services but their issue is that so much of the UI is dedicated to advertising that it makes the overall experience worse. Here.com is owned by Nokia but there is no indication of that apart from a tiny copyright notice in the bottom left of the page.
I've love to try Here.com, however their home page isn't even rendering properly right now. They are serving a completely unstyled page that has totally broken their maps component. I can't even see a map on the page.. There is no style, and apparently no behavior attached to a white page with black text.
Is the internet trying to teach us a timely lesson with this broken site? :p (semi-tongue-in-cheek)
Re: My divorce from Google - One year later
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find Here.com to be better than Google Maps FWIW. Outlook.com to be better than Gmail. It's weird because product-for-product, Google has great web services but their issue is that so much of the UI is dedicated to advertising that it makes the overall experience worse. Here.com is owned by Nokia but there is no indication of that apart from a tiny copyright notice in the bottom left of the page.
I've love to try Here.com, however their home page isn't even rendering properly right now. They are serving a completely unstyled page that has totally broken their maps component. I can't even see a map on the page.. There is no style, and apparently no behavior attached to a white page with black text. Is the internet trying to teach us a timely lesson with this broken site? :p (semi-tongue-in-cheek)
Hilarious, I was just using it before my previous post, continuous deployment fail?
Re: My divorce from Google - One year later
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've love to try Here.com, however their home page isn't even rendering properly right now. They are serving a completely unstyled page that has totally broken their maps component. I can't even see a map on the page.. There is no style, and apparently no behavior attached to a white page with black text. Is the internet trying to teach us a timely lesson with this broken site? :p (semi-tongue-in-cheek)
Hilarious, I was just using it before my previous post, continuous deployment fail?
looks to be back up :)
Re: My divorce from Google - One year later
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
If that's the case, then it's time for small businesses to take their business elsewhere. The problem is, what other options are there?
Re: My divorce from Google - One year later
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
So what?
Play is a Google service. It kind of smacks of something beginning with "h" and ending with "ypocrisy" when you still use a Google service after going through the requisite self-flagellation to go out of your way to not use them, and then write a tone-deaf article on how awesome it is to do so. It doesn't make much sense that someone would go through all this effort to ditch a company and still use one of their flags…
Android and Play aren't synonymous. You can use Android without any trace of Google on your system; and, since Android is open source, it can be verified none of your information is being leaked.