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What are you going to do? Stop using Google products? Good luck.
by Taylor_OD 5y ago
What are you going to do? Stop using Google products? Good luck.
- pjerem 5y agoDone. And it was way easier than i tought.
- lainga 5y agoI could... take my travellers' cheques to a competing resort...
- tomjen3 5y agoI run firefox and use DDG.
- heywherelogingo 5y agoYes. Android and gmail are my last two to get rid of. I was wanting to play with mail in a box, but this morning had an alert on my phone demanding my birthdate within 14 days. So, I'll be expediting google out of my life within the next 14 days.
- dannyw 5y agoAndroid is so bad for privacy.
- LegitShady 5y agoIs AOSP bad for privacy as well? I've been migrating all my services and devices away from Google (I've owned nothing but pixels and nexus phones for a long time) but I was hoping flashing to lineage would work rather than buying a new phone.
- cecja 5y agoYes, AOSP is still calling home.
- danShumway 5y agoBase Android with unmodified settings is terrible for privacy. If you're willing to put in the work to install LineageOS and move off of Google apps and jail/delete them, it can become a superior option over iOS, if for no other reason that that you can set up competent adblocking and take advantage of Open Source replacements for apps like Youtube that don't transmit as much data. This is part of why it's tricky to make phone recommendations to privacy-conscious people. iOS is the clear winner on privacy for nontechnical people, and the clear loser on privacy for highly technical people. But a lot of people fall in the middle of that spectrum -- semi-technical -- and then it becomes complicated to figure out what they should do.
- e3bc54b2 5y agoIf you don't use YouTube, I bow to you good netizen. But in all honesty, it is very very hard to avoid Google. Android, Gamil, YouTube and Search are big four left on my list.
- Igelau 5y agoI'm using YouTube less and less. The ads have become intolerable, and I had my own bad experience with their copyright violation detection. That's the easiest one for me to abandon.
- mackrevinack 5y agoublock origin helps with the ad problem but yea ive been using it much less recently as well. there used to be a point where i would get good recommendations on the homepage but all that shows up is trash these days. i think i must have clicked on 1 short trashy video once and now google thinks thats what im really into. its similar to how annoying it is to use spotify these days and having to be really careful what you play otherwise the suggestions get messed up. or maybe it's that nudging people to watch more short videos make youtube more ad money. i would rather they just went back to showing you videos from your most popular subscriptions and then a few good recommendations
- Igelau 5y agoThe funny thing is I can't even vote with my dollars. Most of the ads I get are for insurance companies that have already refused to touch my century-old house with knob-and-tube wiring.