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Re: “We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”

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Post by bato »

zxyzzxxx wrote: post #57
fny wrote: post #42

Raise your hand if you feel like this is an unwarranted breach of privacy, but you have a gmail account and heavily depend on Google services. Raises own hand. I was so trusting and willing to give away my emails to Google when I was a kid (despite being fully aware of their intentions), but now, even though privacy infringements from all these other companies disturb me, I'm still a hypocritical sheep in Google's he…

For most people it is just search and email. Replacing email is easy, but search is harder since only Google has really accurate and relevant results( besides other giants that also snoop ). The best way to replace search is to use engines that respect privacy and if you need relevant results, those that convey Google's results to you.

I've been using qwant with pretty good results lately.

Still a bit hit and miss but getting better every day.

Re: “We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”

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Post by johnny22 »

dredmorbius wrote: post #69
zxyzzxxx wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For most people it is just search and email. Replacing email is easy, but search is harder since only Google has really accurate and relevant results( besides other giants that also snoop ). The best way to replace search is to use engines that respect privacy and if you need relevant results, those that convey Google's results to you.

Search is the easier: DDG. I've been using it all-but-exclusively for nearly three years solid (and another couple on-and-off before). I do still make use of some Google special collections (Scholar, Books), and for time-bound searches (really wish DDG would support those). Email took me a while longer to sort, but while I have a primary personal account somewhere safe, anonymous / pseudonymous accounts were harder t…

The main feature I'm missing from DDG is the ability to filter results by date. I end up going to google often without it.

Re: “We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”

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Post by FlaceBook »

fny wrote: post #42

Raise your hand if you feel like this is an unwarranted breach of privacy, but you have a gmail account and heavily depend on Google services. Raises own hand. I was so trusting and willing to give away my emails to Google when I was a kid (despite being fully aware of their intentions), but now, even though privacy infringements from all these other companies disturb me, I'm still a hypocritical sheep in Google's he…

I have around 10 gmail accounts, each of which only receives random junk from various sites and mailing lists. I create compressed, encrypted archives that contain only random data, and use them to fill my "drive".

Google is welcome to analyze as much of that as they want.

Re: “We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”

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Post by zxyzzxxx »

dredmorbius wrote: post #69
zxyzzxxx wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For most people it is just search and email. Replacing email is easy, but search is harder since only Google has really accurate and relevant results( besides other giants that also snoop ). The best way to replace search is to use engines that respect privacy and if you need relevant results, those that convey Google's results to you.

Search is the easier: DDG. I've been using it all-but-exclusively for nearly three years solid (and another couple on-and-off before). I do still make use of some Google special collections (Scholar, Books), and for time-bound searches (really wish DDG would support those). Email took me a while longer to sort, but while I have a primary personal account somewhere safe, anonymous / pseudonymous accounts were harder t…

DDG is the fastest of all the privacy-respecting engines, but it consistently gives me the least accurate results. It works if you search for mainstream keywords, otherwise it mostly doesn't.

Re: “We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”

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Post by mschuster91 »

And while making the UX of their Android app shittier and shittier, they block popular 3rd party clients. This time on the shitlist: tweecha (https://twitter.com/tweecha_en).

Seriously, I like Twitter but the way they keep degrading the user experience, it's no wonder people leave en masse.

Re: “We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”

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Post by madez »

FlaceBook wrote: post #73
fny wrote: post #42

Raise your hand if you feel like this is an unwarranted breach of privacy, but you have a gmail account and heavily depend on Google services. Raises own hand. I was so trusting and willing to give away my emails to Google when I was a kid (despite being fully aware of their intentions), but now, even though privacy infringements from all these other companies disturb me, I'm still a hypocritical sheep in Google's he…

I have around 10 gmail accounts, each of which only receives random junk from various sites and mailing lists. I create compressed, encrypted archives that contain only random data, and use them to fill my "drive". Google is welcome to analyze as much of that as they want.

That behaviour is damaging. What is your reasoning and justification for it?

Re: “We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”

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Post by cherry_su »

madez wrote: post #77
FlaceBook wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have around 10 gmail accounts, each of which only receives random junk from various sites and mailing lists. I create compressed, encrypted archives that contain only random data, and use them to fill my "drive". Google is welcome to analyze as much of that as they want.

That behaviour is damaging. What is your reasoning and justification for it?

Why is it damaging?

Re: “We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”

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Post by flurp »

I see a lot of (rightfully) upset comments but this doesn't really come as a surprise to me given that Twitter (and others like FB, GOOG, ad networks) already track websites you visit.

I know there are ways of blocking that but I would have a hard time believing that many (outside of HN readers) block that type of tracking.

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