Living in the 21st century WITHOUT Google?

[Wyatt Mann 17]

Well, this is kind of tough, isnt it? Deleting my facebook, youtube, and other time wasters/privacy breaches were easy. But google is quite invasive. My current phone is a google pixel, and of course that runs on android. So when the contract runs out in a couple months I am not sure what I should do? Anyone else out there who wants to have their cake and eat it too? Sure, privacy is good, but I sure wouldnt want to go back to using a landline, a rand mcnally map, or watching movies on DVD.

 

This article is interesting.

https://spreadprivacy.com/how-to-remove-google/

[elfenix 34,223]

https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-out-of-my-life-it-screwed-up-everything-1830565500

 

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I’m saying goodbye to all that this week. As part of an experiment to live without the tech giants, I’m cutting Google from my life both by abandoning its products and by preventing myself, technologically, from interacting with the company in any way. Engineer Dhruv Mehrotra built a virtual private network, or VPN, for me that prevents my phone, computers, and smart devices from communicating with the 8,699,648 IP addresses controlled by Google. This will cause some huge headaches for me: The company has created countless genuinely useful products, some that we use intentionally and some invisibly. The trade-off? Google tracks us everywhere.

 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,875]

What happens when they create a 8,699,649th IP address?

[Telegraph_it 3,357]

I basically do my entire job by googling stuff. This would be impossible. 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,875]

Is it ok if I still call it googling when I search on DuckDuckGo?

[dcbc 14,465]

Future wars probably will be won by cutting off the losing army's/country's access to the internet/GPS coupled with the hack of an electric grid.  You will survive to see the carnage.  I will be among the first casualties.  But until then, I will enjoy my internets/googles/askjeevesseses.

[elfenix 34,223]

1 hour ago, dcbc said:

Future wars probably will be won by cutting off the losing army's/country's access to the internet/GPS coupled with the hack of an electric grid.  You will survive to see the carnage.  I will be among the first casualties.  But until then, I will enjoy my internets/googles/askjeevesseses.

and people ask me why i save porn.  it'll be more valuable than bullets.

Edited August 12, 2019 by elfenix

[Mole 4,330]

5 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Is it ok if I still call it googling when I search on DuckDuckGo?

I tried switching to DuckDuckGo a few years back, but Google’s relentless tracking of my search history meant that DuckDuckGo was much less efficient at finding what I was looking for so I switched back.

[Wyatt Mann 17]

Thanks elfenix. Damn this is gonna be just as tough as I expected.

[Orange&White 5,522]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-08/i-tried-hiding-from-silicon-valley-in-a-pile-of-privacy-gadgets

[Lobwedgephil 1,139]

You want google. out of your life but you bought a google pixel phone? 

[conVINCEd 21,469]

Just now, Lobwedgephil said:

You want google. out of your life but you bought a google pixel phone? 

4-D chess.

[Mikey4 2,476]

You want google. out of your life but you bought a google pixel phone? 

Probably like me -- bought the phone before deciding to get rid of Google.

[ztejas 43,411]

17 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

What happens when they create a 8,699,649th IP address?

[tokamak 6,395]

I've stopped using Chrome (switched to Firefox) and search (DDG) and have barely even noticed so far. FWIW I also deleted Facebook a while back. Missed it for like 2 days but now I don't even think about it anymore.

Gmail, Google calendar, and Google Play Music are just way too big a part of my life to cut them out at this point, though. Haven't tried anyone else's map solution, either. Apple seems to be missing a giant opportunity with no web-based Maps.