I take issue with the idea that alternatives are measurably worse: - Gmail -> FastMail: faster, more standards compliant, fewer limits (e.g. user aliases, conn

I take issue with the idea that alternatives are measurably worse: - Gmail -> FastMail: faster, more standards compliant, fewer limits (e.g. user aliases, connections, domains, etc), sub-domain aliasing, push email on iOS, app passwords with certain permissions (e.g. just SMTP, for usage on your server), mobile web interface that doesn't suck - Chrome -> Firefox: better UI for power users, better extensions, better privacy (e.g. Facebook multi-account container), even after the WebExtensions API - Android -> iOS: OK, this isn't for everybody, still you have AOSP distributions out there and to their credit Android is very customization still - Gmaps -> OpenStreeMaps: in Easter/Central Europe where I live the maps in Gmaps are really poor and got me lost several times, OSM is miles ahead, for POIs too - YouTube -> Vimeo: not for users, but for content creators Vimeo is superior because it lets you sell your movies and embed private videos on your own website; for users too I prefer seeing conference presentations on Vimeo because the mobile app lets me download them for offline viewing; YouTube indeed is unmatched in content, but I don't feel it's very relevant > bangs seem like a great idea at first, until you realise that Google simply does not need them to return relevant results That's just wrong. I've been using Google since aprox 2002 and no, their results are pretty shitty at times and are only getting worse. I was using "custom search engines" with _keywords_ (supported in both Firefox and Chrome) even when I was using Google. Also DuckDuckGo is pretty good at serving direct answers to various question types too. I'm not a fan of DDG bangs though, because the browser is perfectly capable of handling custom search engines powered by keywords. That's not why I use DDG.