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Serious question: with all this effort, has your life improved in any tangible way? What did you gain from using these products?
by golfer 8y ago
Serious question: with all this effort, has your life improved in any tangible way? What did you gain from using these products?
- beatgammit 8y agoNot OP, but I like not being tracked. Also, DDG has a slew of awesome features, such as bangs (shortcuts to sites, e.g. !a for Amazon, !w for Wikipedia, !aw for Arch Wiki, etc). In fact, I prefer DDG to Google on that basis alone, though occasionally I have to !g or !sp for better search results (Google and Start Page respectively). I still use Google Drive, Google Fi, and Gmail (moving to ProtonMail), but I've found awesome alternatives that improve on Google products: - Orgzly - way better than Keep, and with Syncthing, I can edit task lists on my desktop with my preferred editor - Firefox - ad block on mobile is awesome, as is browser integration for Bitwarden - Signal - better than Hangouts for SMS, if only for the dark theme - andOTP - pin lock for second factor auth beats out Google's Authenticator app I've been considering moving to NextCloud (tons of advantages over GSuite), but I'm having trouble replacing Google Sheets. Honestly, most of Google's products are mediocre, and it's really annoying switching to their flavor of the week (Google Talk -> Hangouts -> Allo -> Duo, Gmail redesign that runs like crap on Firefox, etc). I also wish there were compelling alternatives to YouTube (PeerTube looks interesting, but unlikely to get traction) and Android (Librem 5 might be good enough). In trying to switch, I'm realizing how much better some options are once you get out of the Google ecosystem, but it's hard to kick the few strong products they have.