I deleted my Google account…
I deleted my Google account…
... 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?
In short, today I am the happiest of men.
If that's why you hate firefox, I've got bad news about Brave..
42Go ahead and tell me anyway, I don't understand why people hate me so much here.
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Whats wrong with firefox? Why do you feel they dont want you to be safe on the web anymore?
28I have no idea what's up with the weird anti-Mozilla attitudes coming out lately. They're still better than basically any other tech corp out there.
23I think it's because their business model is not straightforward, well I for certain don't understand it
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It's a bit of a dog whistle, I just don't entirely understand for what yet. Basically you're better off not asking and going on with your life.
A charitable answer is, however, that a central source of income for Mozilla is Google paying them to remain their default search engine. Mozilla is hesitant to truly attack Google, as it would be biting the hand that feeds it.
More importantly though, Mozilla has a female chairwoman. A lot of tech savvy people would rather stick with Brave, whose CEO they can relate to.
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If you don't think Mozilla cares about your privacy anymore, yet you use Qwant, you're probably not going to want to hear that the two partnered up last month.
I've been using Startpage with positive results.
There's also hardened Firefox solutions.
I second Proton... I love 'em. I use them for email and VPN. I always have a hard time putting all my eggs in one basket though, and try to avoid using any one ecosystem for all my organization. For example, I use an offline app for my calendar, and a self-hosted home solution for file management.
Great to see another person giving the one finger salute to big tech. Not sure about your ideas on Apple respecting your privacy though - they haven't given me that impression but maybe I'm misinformed.
23mozilla private derivatives such as librewolf on the desktop and mull on android I just fine. So FF keeps being relevant as not being a derivative from chromium/chrome, it can remain apart from google disabling adds removing extensions.
So yes, FF is food to thrive, and so its derivatives will...
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Everyone here is so negative. Congrats on deleting Google!
7Thank you. I didn't know this platform was so toxic.
-6why toxic? Or better yet, define toxic.
7It 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.
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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... 😐..
7What!? People don't like free time? ;)
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