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Comment by swiley

6 years ago

Google consumer software is almost universally an active full frontal attack on you. Stop using it.

This sounded harder to do than it was in my experience. I figured the alternatives to their products would be less polished. But I switched to Firefox and honestly prefer it to Chrome. (They allow extensions on Android, meaning adblock, which is a game changer for me.) DDG for search is great. Protonmail for email is fine, etc. There isn't much in the Google ecosystem that I miss tbh.

  • For me is google docs and maps.

    • If you need online office and maps then there's Microsoft Office and Bing Maps. Office is an excellent product, well worth the few bucks a month.

      AFAIK, Office is fairly good about privacy.

  • The only thing I have problems finding something that works is Google maps. As an Android user there are a few different options but Google did make a damn good maps app.