Google hate thread
What everyday google services have you euthonised/replaced?
Youtube - ublocked on pc and iYTBP'd on android
Google drive - dropbox
Chrome - mozilla
Search - duckduckgo
Now i'm just not sure what to replace maps with since it gets me around the city so consistently idk what else to even try that would bring better quality
>on android
kyss muh niqqa, dial up mustard reporting
replaced g+ with facebook
Using a custom rom, i dont really need any google services
I replaced:
Google Play services for F-droid on LineageOS
Calender and contacts for nextcloud
Maps for osmand~
Chrome for Palemoon
Also search for duckduckgo
Probably some other shit I forgot about.
my nigga
What do you replace gmail with?
if you dumbfucks are using an android there's like a 75% chance it's "botnet" out the box.
if you dumbfucks are using an iphone there's a 100% chance it's "botnet" out the box.
Stop w/ this google "botnet" meme ignorance
sometimes I'm p convinced most posters here have no idea the actual workings of the internet.
they just meme their way thru /g
he thinks using a custom rom and that if there are no Google services that everything he does is sekrit!
So i shoul use my nokia 3310 and live in the stone age
No he never claimed that. Learn to read.
Learn to extrapolate, the only reason anybody dives away from Google is to escape "the botnet," also
>he thinks having no Google services installed means Google still isn't profiting off him
It means my battery lasts longer and i can use my phone to shitpost for longer periods of time
fuck you, fair enough
no you should understand that the use of mobile phone service these days comes with this agreement. I choose to support the EFF for change instead of waste time shitposting abt botnets that I obvs don't quite understand
stop thinking logically you fucking adult, get off my gee REEEEEEEEEEEE
3 month old news you illiterate fucks
independent.co.uk
Use Brave. Mozilla is a terrible company too. Read about Brendan Eich.
>support the EFF
eff is literal cancer, look up their financial statements, they only care about themselves
classic phones are the patrician choice, unless you mean the new cancer 3310. Insane battery life, ~no botnet, no cancer app distraction.
But you cant shitpost on a bus with it
brave lost me instantly on the micropayment nonsense, pale moon is great, the only counter argument is hurr furries
I don't know anything of their financial dealings, any sources that I might not find on my own?
exactly, we need less shitposting in our lives
they have their statements up their site, tldr pretty similar to Wikipedia
>they are for profit company
>begging for donations all the time
>salaries and benefits are growing like no tomorrow with stable headcount
>rest is siphoned through 'administrative costs'
>revenue is like 2x of their expediture
at this point EFF only concern is to exist and beg for gibs, they shit all over your supposed rights. I mean sure, 5% of your donations might go to a good cause, rest is used as investment for effers to get even fatter. Whether it is a good trade is up to you.
their programs are like more eff fundraising with an occasional blog post about bad sopa, tpp and pipa, then back to business
that sounds a lot like the issues with universities actually rn. I'll view their site next break and re-access. Unfortunately I'm not sure of another way to fight the corporate weight on the infrastructure of the web outside of bureaucracy like eff
Brave is shit on desktop. Keeps freezing when focusing on url bar or bookmarks
YouTube: uBlock'd
Chrome: Vivaldi
Google Maps: Apple Maps
Search: DDG (but DDG is so shit I often need to use google anyway to find what I'm looking for). Anyone know a better alternative?
I'm still using gmail, what's the best replacement?
Do you think using Chromium with uBlock Origin and not logging into google is enough? Forks are lagging behind, and I want the newest release.
Other things:
Google Drive -> nothing, I mostly put things into cloud storage to store them for a long time, rsync is the way I sync data across computers now
Search -> ddg
YT -> I'm avoiding it at the moment. I'd have to dump my list of subscriptions and have a feed of them to really use it.
Looks like a lot of DDG, how does it compare to startpage?
agreed, this is a sad state of affairs they are the best on offer. Look up the numbers to decide for yourself though. I decided I can utilize my money more effectively to do good in the world (same goes for wikipedia) than donating to EFF
>startpage
Enjoy your Google search results. Can't wait for them to start replacing actual results with content they agree with, just like the jigsaw redirect method.
DDG doesn't seem to be as decent as Google is when it comes to typos, and it seems that I have to reword my queries more often than I needed with Google.
Duck go go is fucking based!
Reminder that if you were to block all google subnets, the web would be nearly unusable.
This is the current state of the internet. Majority of websites directly depend on the use of google servers.
Well, Google is number one, it's just the privacy sucks, so if I can have googles money/power/servers etc but not lose my privacy... Just seems most of the lesser known searches suck for a reason and you don't get results. also, any truth in any of this?
We recommend that you don't use DuckDuckGo if you seek a search engine that values your privacy. There's no confirmed proof that DuckDuckGo is violating your privacy, but there are some very suspicious things, however, that make certain other search engines far superior in that regard.
Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo, used to run the Names Database.[1] This was a website that aimed to connect people who had lost contact by gathering lots and lots of e-mail addresses. Getting access could be done by either paying money, or submitting lots of e-mail addresses of other people. Since the service revolved around gathering personal information, it is very suspicious for Gabriel Weinberg to start a business that is privacy-oriented. [2]
DuckDuckGo used to set a tracking cookie, even though they claimed they didn't. This was done by a third party they cooperate with, which means that it wasn't necessarily intentional, but if it's unintentional, it shows a worrying lack of care.[3]
DuckDuckGo is based in the US. This makes it really easy for the NSA to compromise it. If it were based in the EU, for example, the NSA wouldn't have the legal power to force them to log everything without telling anyone. This wouldn't guarantee privacy, but it would make it a lot more plausible. Instead, they're based in the US, which means that the NSA can do whatever they want with them. There are secure search engines that are not based in the US.[3]
majority of the web is useless shit, coincidence?
>if you seek a search engine that values your privacy
At this moment I care more about it not being google than respecting my privacy. And I'm worried that google might start replacing results for certain queries with whatever they consider to be truth.
>dropbox
a verified NSA honeypot
kys
>owning a phone
end yourself
its the opposite
100% botnet for android
and
75% botnet for iphone
Ok, I can def get this.I have seen some suspicious results that seem more biased. I will give it a shot and see if it's too crippled.
It's too good
anyone here using microg?
I'm having issues with the logon to the play store.
GCM is fine 'tho
should I replace Chrome if I am using a VPN?
you shouldn't tie your choice of replacing chrome to your sexual preferences.
just do it
>What is CopperheadOS
you don't quite understand what was being pointed out...
Most open-source custom roms do not come with Google services and are installed separately.
That's what I thought as well, as long as you avoid accidentaly flashing gapps, shouldn't you be fine staying off the botnet?
Then what search engine do I use? It was the one recommended in the cyber security general