Oh yeah, by all means, stop using all Google related services, then realize that about 50% of web services for banking, agriculture, logistics, infrastructure, telecommunications, research and development, industry, transportation, healthcare and energy are hosted on GCP
“Oh but my service is hosted on AWS/AZURE”
Yeah and what do you think is the fallback in case of DRP?
It’s amazing how Trump, a man who has never had a single successful business in his life, has been successful in intimidating much more successful businesses.
I will be damned if he does not go down in history as the most accomplished conman in history. Forget about the people who invented the Brooklyn Bridge scam (ever heard the expression ‘if you believe that I have a bridge to sell you’? That’s where it came from) or the guy who sold the Effel Tower, or Ponzi, or whatever. Trump demolishes all other conmen in how he managed to time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time again fool so many people into giving him their money for his failed ideas, but also told them to eat shit all the way and told them to kiss his ass harder next time he comes along to demand money for more failed businesses.
In that end he is remarkably competent. The only thing he is good at.
Tech megacorps are wusses, in other news fire is hot.
They’re not wusses, they were just biding their time to unveil their true selves.
See, this assigns a level of human personality to corporations that I don’t think we should be doing. It implies there is a “true self” to be revealed, when in reality the “self” of any corporation is entirely plastic and follows what the Excel Sheet tells them will make Line Go Up. Most corporate suits aren’t Elon Musk (who is, in fact, a human being, just a terrible one). Most corporate suits are dead inside and haven’t had a soul or a human emotion since 1985.
No, they just do whatever they can to appease whoever is in charge, because that is how they make money. They only became “LGBTQ friendly” when that was mainstream-acceptable and government-endorsed. And now that the culture is swinging the other way (more than half of americans wanted this fascist descent, never forget that) and the US is going all in on white supremacy and puritanism, they switch tunes right away. Case in point dia da consciência negra, the Brazilian equivalent of a black-history thing is still labelled on my Brazil-facing Google Calendar, because it’s still a government-sponsored and mainstream commemorative date here.
Interesting, my phone just disabled Google calendar due to my pressing and holding on the icons. Can’t help but wonder if these events are related.
They might be since I refuse to get up with fleas after lying down with nazi hounds…
That’ll show them!
Do no evil…
wow such enthusiastic ass kissers. “Am I kissing hard enough Daddy? Will you let me run rampant and monopolize on tech Daddy?”
Holy fuck! Welp, today’s the day, I’ve been a heavy Google user since they became a company basically. Starting to unwind all that TODAY.
Good luck. I’m also on that process. Just changing email provider is enough work with over 300 accounts using my Gmail address. Don’t give up, but be aware it’s a lot of work.
Starting to makes sense. All this anti American crap was happening last time he was president too. I thought the world was going mad, but he was pushing. It was him the whole time.
This is hardly a push. These companies are changing because they want to change. No one is forcing them to change things. He’s just giving them cover.
Don’tbe evil.“We will also be adding Lynch a Minority for the following states…”
- Virginia
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Georgia
- Florida
- Alabama
- Tennessee
- Mississippi
- Louisiana
- Texas
- Arkansas
- Oklahoma
They also changed gulf of Mexico officially to gulf of America in Maps
Just a note to add here. Bing maps does exist. And they haven’t followed this insanity. (so far)
What’s Bing? /s
They should have a Normal / Maga toggle for their apps
How dumb. Seriously how fucking dumb do you have to be to go along with something that is so juvenile and stupid. Everything about it is dumb.
They’ve done this for every disputed area around the world for a long time. Depending on where you’re logging in from you’ll see a different locale.
I see “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in Canada which is fucking stupid. Nobody outside of the US recognises “Gulf of America”
Basically nobody in the US recognizes Gulf of America either.
I mean, most people could probably figure it out by deduction, but nobody is going to point right to it on a map.
Just checked, same in Norway. Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)
Will they change Ukraine to Russia?
Prove that
Another user just replied to me confirming they show a hybrid label for it. It’s also kind of general knowledge for anyone who has consumed their Maps API. Lmk if you need links.
I’m so glad I’ve been de-googlifying these past few years. All that’s left is an Adblocked YT and a Gmail account I mostly use to sign up for random shit.
Any tips or suggestions?
mailbox.org for mail. you can watch most youtube using freetube and skip the ads and sponsors.
Regarding YouTube, the only real options you have are Peertube (which has little content and a discovery problem) or Odysee (which is fine as long as you don’t look at the comments)
As for E-Mail, due to the recent proton situation the only real option (unless you don’t care about that) is self hosting
There’s plenty of privacy respecting non-proton options that don’t involve trying to set up your own mail server.
I am not fully degoogled by any means (it is really hard when family uses and relies on Google products), but you can always start with your own domain and a private (paid) email service (like fastmail or proton). It’s an easy step to take for yourself (but getting everyone you know to start using the new one takes time).
I have a Synology NAS I use for storage, photos, and media. It’s easy mode storage l, and comes with a lot of apps you can install to replace ones you might use from Google/apple.
The only google I use is youtube. I started out on the internet in the 90s and while I was introduced to google, I found it highly unappealing and I was a yahoo guy until I made duckduckgo my default search. I got a lot of my news from yahoo news at one point.
Unfortunately proton is no longer a company I trust either. It’s getting harder and harder to find a safe haven…
Proton has a variety of solid services: mail, drive, calendar, vpn, etc.
I think they’ve taken into the category of fascist loving snakes now the way I understand it
yep. their CEO kissed the ring. cancelled my subscription immediately.
What’s everyone using for email in a post Google world?
mailbox.org has been pretty good. you can also sync contacts and calendar using DAVx5 on android. They don’t have any official apps. but thunderbird mobile works well.
Tutamail. Actually great company values. Company works more like a coop. Diversity and inclusion is part of its message. Encryption is paramount.
Selfhosting. (But I recognize that that is not an option for everyone.)
I’ve been running my own email for 25 years and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. 😔
I always thought that I would just end up in spam or just blocked if I tried self hosting it 😅
Fair TBH. It is such a critical service to keep working.
But it does feel pretty amazing to free yourself of the whims of a provider 😅 I assume that’s why you have not gone back either? ^^
For many years it was just that I didn’t trust anyone not to hand my data over to someone else, whether that be governments, companies, or (unintentionally) hackers.
Nowadays I would probably trust Proton Mail, since they have pretty good encryption. But as you point out then I would be dependent on a provider.
Currently I mostly have problems when I lose power or when my ISP renumbers. Probably I should just migrate and save myself pain from Google and Microsoft making it hard to send mail to their users (which is most people on the planet).
Oh shit, yes, hosting at-home and with a non-static IP sounds like hard mode, oof.
I am hosting at a server provider (guess I am dependent on them, but at least it’s on their existence, not on a policy-of-the-day), with a static IP. Had no problems with MS/Google, only with T-online, who wanted me to host a website on the domain with clear contact information.
I want to do this. Do you know of any good VPS provider in a privacy-respecting jurisdiction that allows this?
I’m using Hetzner in Germany. Need to message them to say you want the relevant ports opened (spam protection measures), happens within an hour usually.
I quite like their service, but of course use full disk encryption etc
Tuta and Mailbox
posteo
Fastmail
protonmail
I think there is some news about proton CEO
Addy.io + Posteo
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Proton mail is pretty good. And they have a trustworthy VPN service.
Update: I officially rescind my statement. Do not use Proton.
Get mullvad if you want a good VPN provider. Get tutamail if you want a good email provider.
Fuck proton, get off proton.
Are there any alternatives with similar features?
Tutanota & fastmail get reccomended often lately (i still need to check them out) Posteo is good too but they have only paid options (1€+)
Yeah I’m de-googling, fuck this
For fucks sake
