Why I Quit Using Google

Post by xwowsersx » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 4:33 AM UTC

Semaphor wrote: post #27

xwowsersx wrote: post #24

I recently switched to Fastmail and I'm very happy. The web and mobile apps are blazing fast and simple. My favorite feature is being able to add unlimited aliases which sends/forwards to whatever address I choose. This has enabled granular control over my inbox as I have receipts@mydomain, bills@mydomain, finance@mydomain, etc. If I want to try some service, I might create an alias. If they end up spamming too much,…

I use fastmail with my own domain, so it’s always service@domain.tld. I only need to create aliases if I have to write them so the from/sender is correct. And I love how fast their webmail is compared to the slowness of gmail.

Post by tiatia » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 4:43 AM UTC

mapgrep wrote: post #89

xenator wrote: post #7

I love that other companies have sustainable alternatives to Google services. But these articles looks more like hype train and doesn’t really add any new value for me. You are not building something new switching from one big corp to another small company that want to become another big company next day. Probably I’m getting old but I remember times when Google doesn’t exists. We had software for files, messages, ca…

Five of his switches were to nextcloud, which is self hosted and open source. One was to self hosted email. Many of the others were things like web search, browser, etc, where it’s hard to avoid a company.

Post by xwowsersx » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 4:52 AM UTC

K0SM0S wrote: post #95

xwowsersx wrote: post #91

I have a Google One subscription so I pay Google for storage. Google could suspend my account and I'd have no recourse whatsoever? I'd have no way of getting my 10s of thousands of photos back?

I hope you have backups, at the very least. Yes, most subscriptions generally say in the ToS that the account and all assets may be closed/deleted at the sole discretion of the provider. It's anecdotally rare, but depending on the company (quality of customer service), it may be irreversible, or take a long time to fix. My personal rule is to never trust a third-party to "protect" my data; there is no such thing in t…

Post by boring_twenties » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 4:58 AM UTC

xwowsersx wrote: post #96

K0SM0S wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope you have backups, at the very least. Yes, most subscriptions generally say in the ToS that the account and all assets may be closed/deleted at the sole discretion of the provider. It's anecdotally rare, but depending on the company (quality of customer service), it may be irreversible, or take a long time to fix. My personal rule is to never trust a third-party to "protect" my data; there is no such thing in t…

Thanks. What's the cheapest or most cost-effective way to backup all my photos? S3?

Post by netsharc » Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 5:17 AM UTC

ravenstine wrote: post #71

buran77 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's an understatement. Google's customer service is legendary in the sense that everyone's heard of it but nobody has actually been able to "see" it. But having bad customer service is just bad service, confiscating users' data really not unlike theft.

Imagine if your landlord decided to not only evict you but immediately confiscate any possessions you have in their property.