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Could you share why as a former Google dev you no longer use Google search and gmail? I'm curious why you mentioned that in response to a post about cloud sourc

Could you share why as a former Google dev you no longer use Google search and gmail? I'm curious why you mentioned that in response to a post about cloud source repositories. Thanks.

random_kris 8y ago
I am interested in this aswell :)
paulgb 8y ago
I'm not OP, but I'm also a former Googler. I switched to DDG and Firefox after I left because I think it's important that alternatives exist. Google may be a better actor in monopoly situations than some other companies, but they're still a company trying to make profit for shareholders. (As a bonus, I find ddg+Firefox snappier than Google+Chrome)
- srean 8y ago
  > Google may be a better actor in monopoly situations than some other companies That made me think, so thank you and yes I agree.
  - paulgb 8y ago
    I'm glad you quoted me after I edited "Google is" to "Google may be". I am willing to contend that it's not a settled point :-)
    - srean 8y ago
      I think I would have agreed even if you had said 'has been ... so far'. Monopolies rarely behave well.
jkaplowitz 8y ago
I'm a former Googler and I mostly don't use Gmail for the mundane reason that its filtering isn't as powerful as what I do with dovecot and sieve. I may transition from my mail server after I've deployed automation for this built atop GCP and the Gmail API. Even then I'll still make plenty of use of mutt for better supporting OpenPGP, bottom-posting, and true threading - all of these things are still useful in Debian, and I am a Debian developer. But I'll be more easily able to mix usage of Gmail and mutt, without some hacks I currently use to achieve that.