Mastodon seems to be a very pro-privacy, anti-Gopgle place.
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@chris_colvin@mastodon.social ditching an old main account of google. just keeping secondary account for posting of youtube clips of bird observations. Hardest is to ditch google maps.... working on that.
@stephan yeah, Google maps is terribly useful haha
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@chris_colvin The only one I still use regularly is YouTube. Occasionally I use Maps but only if I need Streetview. I'd love to get rid of both and be able to say that I'm completely Google free, but alas, the alternatives just don't have the content.
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@chris_colvin I only use Google email and calendars for things that aren’t important to me.
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@chris_colvin gmail, youtube, gmaps. I want to extract entirely, but very low of spoon.
@rubyjones the lack of spoons is so real
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@chris_colvin The only one I still use regularly is YouTube. Occasionally I use Maps but only if I need Streetview. I'd love to get rid of both and be able to say that I'm completely Google free, but alas, the alternatives just don't have the content.
@stveje as a YouTube addict myself, that is the toughest one for me gaha
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@stveje as a YouTube addict myself, that is the toughest one for me gaha
@chris_colvin Same. If I were making videos, I'd post them on Peertube for sure, but as a consumer of videos? I'm basically fucked.
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@chris_colvin@mastodon.social I use nothing from Google except Android system webview, which can't be replaced without root or custom ROM
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@chris_colvin Well, that's 1-3 as my mobiles are still the standard Android as the Moto G6Plus and the Xperia XZ2 Premium came with.
Both still too good to replace.
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@rubyjones the lack of spoons is so real
@chris_colvin
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@rubyjones @chris_colvin Ah crap - didn't think about maps and didn't realise youtube was google - I should've said 4-6. I use these plus android and google wallet on my phone. (also google play, but that feels like a core part of android?)
@pentup @chris_colvin Oooh, I wasn't counting Android (but all the Phone OSes I could possibly work with are evil) and I recently (like, just a couple of weeks ago) had to get Google Wallet because I left my purse at home and it was the only way to pay. I've made exactly one purchase with it, but yeah, I would also be in 4-6
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@chris_colvin I’m at 1… YouTube. I don’t how I could drop it until those content creators don’t move elsewhere.
I have reduced its use though.
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