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I've mostly switched to DDG and it works great for most queries but I do still end up resorting to Google if I'm not able to find what I'm looking for. I've got

I've mostly switched to DDG and it works great for most queries but I do still end up resorting to Google if I'm not able to find what I'm looking for. I've gotten my Google search use down to maybe five times a week. I've started migrating from Gmail to ProtonMail but it's been a slow process. Turns out it's not trivial to drop an email address that I've been using extensively for more than a decade. You're right that Android is a big one. De-Googled Android is possible but it isn't a great experience. I've been desperate for a "true" Linux phone for years.

mar77i 8y ago
Also moving to ProtonMail, and I'm somewhat slow with ditching the Google account, since I use it for stalking a couple of geeks on g+ and do use the chat with close friends. Of course XMPP would work here. With cellphones I found the new Nokia dumbphone with wifi hotspot and without Android (no Playstore, either) pretty much Perfect For My Needs™.
SkyMarshal 8y ago
>You're right that Android is a big one. De-Googled Android is possible but it isn't a great experience. I've been desperate for a "true" Linux phone for years. I switched to iPhone about six months ago, after having used Android since it was invented. In both cases you're trusting a large corporation, but Apple's business model is more direct - sell products and services directly to customers while protecting their privacy, vs Google's "the user is the product" approach. Apple seems the lesser of two evils in this regard.
- mdekkers 8y ago
  I'm thinking of doing the same, and was wondering about Apple's position on ads, selling metrics, selling tracking data, and all the other craptastic stuff.
  - graeme 8y ago
    People have done GDPR requests for apple and get back basically nothing, because almost nothing is stored. You can read about the limited analytics data apple provides to app devs as well.
floatboth 8y ago
> De-Googled Android is possible but it isn't a great experience All I need from Google is the push notifications, so microG provides a great experience for me…
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dingaling 8y ago
I didn't have much option but to switch to DDG this week. Every Google search from our domestic IPv6 range is receiving the 'suspicuous traffic' blocking page from Google with its demands to complete unending CAPTCHAs. I used to receive one every few weeks, now they're constant [0] I've found DDG ok so far but need to dig into how to do literal searches. But since the only Google product we used was Search, it was indeed quite easy to switch away. [0] seems to be triggered by a combination of having JS disabled on google.com and rapidly refining searches based on the displayed results, without clicking them. Basically Google thinks we're robots because their search results are inadequate.

mar77i 8y ago

Also moving to ProtonMail, and I'm somewhat slow with ditching the Google account, since I use it for stalking a couple of geeks on g+ and do use the chat with close friends. Of course XMPP would work here. With cellphones I found the new Nokia dumbphone with wifi hotspot and without Android (no Playstore, either) pretty much Perfect For My Needs™.

SkyMarshal 8y ago

>You're right that Android is a big one. De-Googled Android is possible but it isn't a great experience. I've been desperate for a "true" Linux phone for years. I switched to iPhone about six months ago, after having used Android since it was invented. In both cases you're trusting a large corporation, but Apple's business model is more direct - sell products and services directly to customers while protecting their privacy, vs Google's "the user is the product" approach. Apple seems the lesser of two evils in this regard.

mdekkers 8y ago
I'm thinking of doing the same, and was wondering about Apple's position on ads, selling metrics, selling tracking data, and all the other craptastic stuff.
- graeme 8y ago
  People have done GDPR requests for apple and get back basically nothing, because almost nothing is stored. You can read about the limited analytics data apple provides to app devs as well.

floatboth 8y ago

> De-Googled Android is possible but it isn't a great experience All I need from Google is the push notifications, so microG provides a great experience for me…

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dingaling 8y ago

I didn't have much option but to switch to DDG this week. Every Google search from our domestic IPv6 range is receiving the 'suspicuous traffic' blocking page from Google with its demands to complete unending CAPTCHAs. I used to receive one every few weeks, now they're constant [0] I've found DDG ok so far but need to dig into how to do literal searches. But since the only Google product we used was Search, it was indeed quite easy to switch away. [0] seems to be triggered by a combination of having JS disabled on google.com and rapidly refining searches based on the displayed results, without clicking them. Basically Google thinks we're robots because their search results are inadequate.