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Do you enjoy your free email account, free maps, free YouTube and free search?

by glerk 7y ago

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sgjohnson 7y ago
Outlook/Proton. OpenStreetMaps. Vimeo/Dailymotion. DuckDuckGo. All free.
- Grazester 7y ago
  Vimeo/Dailymotion not a replacement for youtube when the things you are interested aren't posted there.
  - dredmorbius 7y ago
    invdio.us at least proxies. Youtube-dl mps-youtube, and mpv allow direct downloading and streaming (and not just from YT). I'm working through 12 or so hours of a podcast from a textfile plalist of mp3 links, in Termux, on Android. For my workflow that beats any podcast app. (Though a good CLI podcast manager would be handy.)
  - tracker1 7y ago
    Although, I'd love to see more cross-posting for video content that I follow. I happen to appreciate Tim Pool, Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson... and given the push to the left (away from Liberal views even), and towards more censorship, I don't like where things are now. The best way to combat bad ideas is with more information and facts, not to silence the conversation and push it out.
  - asdff 7y ago
    RSS and youtube-dl for your subs my man. ddg site:youtube.com for new content searches. Full youtube functionality without visiting the site.
jmkni 7y ago
I pay for GSuite (custom domain), can I turn this shit off?
- xfer 7y ago
  Can't remember if everything was turned off at the beginning but i only have youtube activity enabled since i want to revisit it sometimes.
sajithdilshan 7y ago
My email (gmail) is bound with so many services (both online and offline) and it is part of my online identity. It would be so much effort to change the email now. I don't think there is an alternative to google maps which is in the same level as quality and richness in information. I would be totally lost without google maps when I'm traveling to other countries, especially when it comes to public transportation like tram, U-bahn and busses.
- pcurve 7y ago
  I don't use Gmail to register with any other websites. I have a separate email for that.
- kossae 7y ago
  > My email (gmail) is bound with so many services (both online and offline) and it is part of my online identity. It would be so much effort to change the email now. This is the same effort I've undertaken in moving to FastMail (or any other similar service). It's not as bad as you think, just change your e-mail every time you log in to a new service. You don't have to do everything as once, but instead when you actual access the service. I'm now to the point where I don't receive any important e-mail in Gmail anymore, and most (at least all important) of my online identities are now pointed at my personal email address.
- sfotm 7y ago
  This is the reason why it's so nice to manage your own domain, even if you were to decide to stay on gmail. You can always just point the domain to a new provider. I've gone from Namecheap's solution to GSuite to ProtonMail to FastMail, all without an outage of any kind. Migrating previous conversations from ProtonMail was sort of difficult, though.
- justusthane 7y ago
  I switched off of Gmail a couple years ago after almost a decade with Gmail, in the same boat as you with my full online identity tied to it. Honestly, the realization that my identity was so tied to it is why I switched - I didn't want to lose my online identity at Google's whim. The switch isn't as bad as you would think. It was pretty painless. 1. Compile a list of all your online accounts - if you use a password manager, you should already have this 2. Create a new email account on a service you trust, preferably at your own domain. That way, if you decide to switch providers later you can keep your address. I used Fastmail, and I'll cast my vote for them. (I believe Fastmail also has the ability to automatically import all your email from Gmail, although I took advantage of the switch to start fresh. I just downloaded a bulk archive of all my email). 3. Set up a vacation responder on your gmail address explaining your switch. 4. Change your email address on all your online accounts to your new address 5. After a period of time to make sure people are using your new email address, remove Gmail from your Google account. What's really cool about this is you can easily switch your Google ID for your existing Google account to your new email address, so you can continue to use any Google services as you wish without having them in control of your email/online identity. NOTE: Even after removing Gmail from your Google account, you remain in control of that Gmail address - Google won't reassign it. You can reactivate it at any time (for example, if there was an account you forgot to switch). I've reactivated and re-deactivated mine several times. It's really not bad, and much more painless that losing access to your Google account.
bubblewrap 7y ago
A bought service could track you all the same.
JohnFen 7y ago
I'm not the person you're replying to, but... > Do you enjoy your free email account, free maps, free YouTube and free search? It's not free -- you're just paying with data instead of cash. In any case, no, I don't. I do use YouTube (only on a device and account that is used exclusively for that), but I actually pay money for my YouTube usage.

Do you enjoy your free email account, free maps, free YouTube and free search?

by glerk 7y ago

Do you enjoy your free email account, free maps, free YouTube and free search?

deleted 7y ago

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sgjohnson 7y ago

Outlook/Proton. OpenStreetMaps. Vimeo/Dailymotion. DuckDuckGo. All free.

Grazester 7y ago
Vimeo/Dailymotion not a replacement for youtube when the things you are interested aren't posted there.
- dredmorbius 7y ago
  invdio.us at least proxies. Youtube-dl mps-youtube, and mpv allow direct downloading and streaming (and not just from YT). I'm working through 12 or so hours of a podcast from a textfile plalist of mp3 links, in Termux, on Android. For my workflow that beats any podcast app. (Though a good CLI podcast manager would be handy.)
- tracker1 7y ago
  Although, I'd love to see more cross-posting for video content that I follow. I happen to appreciate Tim Pool, Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson... and given the push to the left (away from Liberal views even), and towards more censorship, I don't like where things are now. The best way to combat bad ideas is with more information and facts, not to silence the conversation and push it out.
- asdff 7y ago
  RSS and youtube-dl for your subs my man. ddg site:youtube.com for new content searches. Full youtube functionality without visiting the site.

jmkni 7y ago

I pay for GSuite (custom domain), can I turn this shit off?

xfer 7y ago
Can't remember if everything was turned off at the beginning but i only have youtube activity enabled since i want to revisit it sometimes.

sajithdilshan 7y ago

My email (gmail) is bound with so many services (both online and offline) and it is part of my online identity. It would be so much effort to change the email now. I don't think there is an alternative to google maps which is in the same level as quality and richness in information. I would be totally lost without google maps when I'm traveling to other countries, especially when it comes to public transportation like tram, U-bahn and busses.

pcurve 7y ago
I don't use Gmail to register with any other websites. I have a separate email for that.
kossae 7y ago
> My email (gmail) is bound with so many services (both online and offline) and it is part of my online identity. It would be so much effort to change the email now. This is the same effort I've undertaken in moving to FastMail (or any other similar service). It's not as bad as you think, just change your e-mail every time you log in to a new service. You don't have to do everything as once, but instead when you actual access the service. I'm now to the point where I don't receive any important e-mail in Gmail anymore, and most (at least all important) of my online identities are now pointed at my personal email address.
sfotm 7y ago
This is the reason why it's so nice to manage your own domain, even if you were to decide to stay on gmail. You can always just point the domain to a new provider. I've gone from Namecheap's solution to GSuite to ProtonMail to FastMail, all without an outage of any kind. Migrating previous conversations from ProtonMail was sort of difficult, though.
justusthane 7y ago
I switched off of Gmail a couple years ago after almost a decade with Gmail, in the same boat as you with my full online identity tied to it. Honestly, the realization that my identity was so tied to it is why I switched - I didn't want to lose my online identity at Google's whim. The switch isn't as bad as you would think. It was pretty painless. 1. Compile a list of all your online accounts - if you use a password manager, you should already have this 2. Create a new email account on a service you trust, preferably at your own domain. That way, if you decide to switch providers later you can keep your address. I used Fastmail, and I'll cast my vote for them. (I believe Fastmail also has the ability to automatically import all your email from Gmail, although I took advantage of the switch to start fresh. I just downloaded a bulk archive of all my email). 3. Set up a vacation responder on your gmail address explaining your switch. 4. Change your email address on all your online accounts to your new address 5. After a period of time to make sure people are using your new email address, remove Gmail from your Google account. What's really cool about this is you can easily switch your Google ID for your existing Google account to your new email address, so you can continue to use any Google services as you wish without having them in control of your email/online identity. NOTE: Even after removing Gmail from your Google account, you remain in control of that Gmail address - Google won't reassign it. You can reactivate it at any time (for example, if there was an account you forgot to switch). I've reactivated and re-deactivated mine several times. It's really not bad, and much more painless that losing access to your Google account.

bubblewrap 7y ago

A bought service could track you all the same.

JohnFen 7y ago

I'm not the person you're replying to, but... > Do you enjoy your free email account, free maps, free YouTube and free search? It's not free -- you're just paying with data instead of cash. In any case, no, I don't. I do use YouTube (only on a device and account that is used exclusively for that), but I actually pay money for my YouTube usage.