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A community for those that would like to get away from Google.

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I deleted my Google account… (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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... And damm it feels good! Before starting this step, I had to migrate to a better browser that respects privacy (Brave, because🖕Firefox, I mean Mozilla at this point doesn’t even want you to be safe on the web anymore!) And a better “Google-style” ecosystem (Proton is the best they have an email service, a calendar, a password manager and the holy drive).

The last step was YouTube. How to do without a Google account? Well, thanks to Piped + Yattee, the best combo I had a hard time finding. For those who do not know, Yattee is a great app that is an interface for Piped on Apple devices, besides, do you consider Apple to be respectful of privacy? Me yes 👍

In short, today I am the happiest of men 🤩. If you wonder which search engine I use instead of Google, it’s Qwant, because, even if they use Bing’s API like DuckDuckGo, they work on their own index and they even start putting a little AI in their search engine, which doesn’t tell the user to eat non-toxic glue of course 😉. They also made an excellent redesign.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Congratulations on leaving Google, personally I still have an account but I never log in, it's for those rare occasions when I need it... I would say though the tricky part isn't leaving, it's staying outside forever, I have convinced some people of leaving FB and even Instagram but they couldn't resist the temptation and went back, they told me they felt bored because they had so much free time... 😐..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

What!? People don't like free time? ;)