re: Do YOU use Google products - Yes or No

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just find it hypocritical to see people post complaining about Google removing Winston Churchill from search pics, then use their products everyday, giving them revenue to keep doing the same thing OVER and OVER. THAT IS THE POINT!

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A more productive thread would be to start with your post about alternatives, where to find them, tips and tricks, etc.

Instead of a gotcha, y'all are hypocrites tone.

Maybe we could get a PT Tech Thread going for alternative options. Most people probably don't realize there are other options. While not perfect (eliminating Google 100%) it is progress.

Personally, I have started using Outlook for email, Onedrive for cloud storage/office, and Brave/Duckduckgo for browsing/search. I also have a proton mail account setup but haven't started using it.

Been using Android phones since day 1, likely will switch to iPhone when it is time. I finally got an iPad last year and the OS and ecosystem are growing on me.

YouTube and gmaps will be the hardest to get rid of. I suppose I could create a new clean account just for YouTube. Maps has too much invested (2000+ places marked) and is too good a product to abandon. Which kinda sucks because GPS/maps is the easiest way to be tracked.

Any alternatives to Google maps? I know apple maps was horrible initially but has made gains. Waze is owned by Google so that doesn't help anything.

Eta: Also use a pixelbook go which I just bought so that kind of undermines everything else for the time being. I will probably buy a MacBook Air next go around.

Any recs for <$1000 laptops that are not Windows?