Just simply move to China.
Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
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Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
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I loathe Google Docs for the horrible UX. Dropbox was great (modulo security/privacy) but they are increasingly moving away from what made it great (a simple file system abstraction). My absolute favorite today is Keybase (it includes cloud file storage too) which is the only of my options that I actually trust to be private.
Keybase recently sold itself to Zoom in what looks like an acqui-hire: https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-acquires-keybase-and-announces-goa... The blog post only talks about integrating Keybase's team - no mention of their product.
That was what I was referring to. They sent an update and wrote a blog post when it happened: https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom
"Ultimately Keybase's future is in Zoom's hands, and we'll see where that takes us. Of course, if anything changes about Keybase’s availability, our users will get plenty of notice."
No update since. Keybase still works (and I use it constantly), but will it be around in two years?
Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
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Kudos absolutely great to see you do this I moved off Google after they started doing some strange things with our adwords accounts Anyways Agree with you on this -> The only google service that is really relevant and hard to replace is YouTube. Google's earnings from ads went down last quarter. First quarter that has ever happened They are definitely at risk of becoming Yahoo 2.0. The only thing is the immense amoun…
I can agree with Bing but DDG is plain horrible for searches. It's basically just Google page 2+ results on Page 1. Outlook decided it would be a nice idea to change my "Thank you" signature to an emoji in a business casual email. For mobile, I use an Android for all the apps I can't avoid not having, but otherwise I resort to Blackberry like the old coot I am. My Q10 is still reliable af.
> I can agree with Bing but DDG is plain horrible for searches. It's basically just Google page 2+ results on Page 1.
Maybe a couple years ago. I can't remember getting better results with Google over DDG more than once or twice in the past two years.
Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
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Same here: Migrated all my gmail accounts to Fastmail. Took me two days. Migrated Google Docs to Dropbox. And replaced Google Sheets and Doc with a Microsoft subscription (MS Word and MS Excel). Then there‘s the search engine. I tried hard to replace Google Search with DDG, but I have to admit that Google gives me better search results. Still I would love to leave this also behind. Finally there is youtube for me. Ai…
> I tried hard to replace Google Search with DDG, but I have to admit that Google gives me better search results. In those cases where DuckDuckGo is not enough, just append !sp to your search, this will tell DDG to redirect your search to StartPage which is essentially a proxied Google search (the results come from Google but you as a user don't get in direct contact with Google itself).
or just !s
Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
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I will keep using Google products for as long as they keep being great. Life's too short for extreme measures. You gotta pick your fights. What I did stop using was anything Apple related and that fight was easy to pick. Their repair-hostile-by-design hardware actually harm the environment. Plus it proved trivial to replace their crap with superior tech.
Your brazen fanboying for Google is really painful to watch. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hu3
First, ad hominem attacks are discouraged by guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And for a good reason. I could, for example, take a quick glance at your profile and see that you spread misinformation about VS Code 7 hours ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24251487) but what good would it bring? I'd rather argue about the topic at hand.
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Now resuming the discussion about using Google services anyway because life's too short to bother:
That's just how 7 billion people think.
Out of bubbles, there's much more to worry about on a daily basis than what some web site knows about me.
Our privilege blinds us and Maslow's Pyramid gets all sorts of messed up around these parts just because we can.
Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
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I like that your source is from Apple. Is that a joke? Took me 5 seconds on first Google page to confirm what is common sense: "Apple's horrid repair policies are forcing shops to destroy stacks of MacBook Pros" https://www.inputmag.com/culture/apples-repair-policies-are-...
> I like that your source is from Apple. Did you read the claims made in it and check whether they're false? https://gigaom.com/2013/11/18/apple-solar-farm-fuel-cell-far... http://www.macrumors.com/2015/05/12/apple-tops-2015-greenpea... https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/25/apple-leads-us-solar-en... There are primary sources in those links. > Apple's horrid repair policies are forcing shops to destroy stacks of MacBo…
Bad analogy.
Destroying MacBooks that could be repaired is detrimental to the environment.
Manufacturing a new laptop uses rare metals, petrol, all sorts of chemicals, tons of water and generates pollution.
Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
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Kudos absolutely great to see you do this I moved off Google after they started doing some strange things with our adwords accounts Anyways Agree with you on this -> The only google service that is really relevant and hard to replace is YouTube. Google's earnings from ads went down last quarter. First quarter that has ever happened They are definitely at risk of becoming Yahoo 2.0. The only thing is the immense amoun…
Why use epic and edge when you can haves Firefox? My experience with Mozilla has always been great. It might be marginally slower than chrome, but I don't notice and they have great features and it's open source
I suggest using brave instead others because it doesn’t advertise and blocks a lot of trackers and ads !
Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
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I really enjoyed google inbox. Gmail moved a few things over from it, but what I really appreciated was archiving everything older than a month, because usually it was promotional crap anyway.
I also really enjoyed Inbox
In my circle, everyone who used Inbox loved it. One of the most bizarre decisions Google ever made was cutting it.
Re: Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
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Any idea why Runnaroo gives you better results than DDG? It doesn't seem to have better data sources.
>Any idea why Runnaroo gives you better results than DDG? It doesn't seem to have better data sources. Not necessarily better data sources, but different data sources and a slightly different approach. For organic results, the biggest different is that Runnaroo uses Google as the base for web results (similar to Startpage) where DDG uses Bing. Outside of the organic results, Runnaroo's strategy is to integrate result…
Is it ok to get Google results like that?