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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 3 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] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thank you. I didn't know this platform was so toxic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

It happens... most of the time when you get to emotionally invovled and your personal opinion diverge from ones vision.

Either disable the up/down vote system or don't give on your personal feelings. The "fuck off firefox" was to much of a personal opinion without any disputable arguments.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

why toxic? Or better yet, define toxic.