![]() ![]() I have been trying (not entirely successfully) to move away from Google for a while now. However I'm still on Android seeing no real alternatives, SailFish was a substantial fail, Purism phone it's not there, OpenMoko, GreenPhone. I have no need of Drive and I use personal calendar (via CardDav/Radicale) and contacts so I'm less bound. On Android sync without cloud is a pity due to limited fs access, however Termux work wall enough. On Keep I switch to Orgzly on mobile and sync my notes or to be more precise the sole parts of them I want on mobile, via org-mode+rsync. I still use few time a day Google search mostly because it work far better. So I try to switch to YaCy (FOSS distributed search engine, a bit a java monster but not as monstrous as many Java crap we all know. ![]() A STANDARD IMAP so I can properly delete my mails from my local maildir without the need of moving to trash, sync back, delete from trash and sync back again.įor search IMVHO there is no point in switching between Google search and other equivalent search engine, simply because DDG, QWant etc are still company offering something from their own server. Lightweight webmail (Roundcube) instead of monsters like actual GMail, login with user and password visible at the same time without the absurdity of Google that demand user-enter-password-enter cycle. Benefit: alias to tell anyone a different mail so I know where the spam came from and I can easy drop anyone I dislike. Me to, personally I drop GMail for a personal mail (20 euros per years, with a bunch of mailbox + unlimited aliases altogether with a personal domain. Hence why they'll be able to get away with privacy issues like this. Im just rambling at this point, but I think somewhere in there is a point about reliability, ease of use, and security that makes Google's products so compelling. is never down, it's always my hardware, or my ISP, never Google. For example I'll often ping for a network test. ![]() The issue is that Google's stuff has always been very reliable and performance (well performant enough). Not sure what do to about drive at this time. I'll probably make the shift to protonmail to replace Gmail. It's been surprisingly difficult finding a good replacement for keep. Drive, keep, Gmail, photos, hell I'm even typing this on a pixel 2. It's all small stuff, but it adds up.īut despite this, and the lower quality search results of DDG, I'm still going to push forward with degooglifying my stuff. Or how in the phone app of Firefox you need to pull up the side menu to refresh instead of just pulling the page down. I can get the usual privacy extensions easily enough, but things like using media keys to control videos playing in the back ground. The state of extensions on Firefox is a mess. It's a small thing, but boy do you start to feel like a second rate citizen fast. I've switched to Firefox and Duck Duck Go. For some reason this was also a breaking point for me. ![]()
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