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How to live a Google free life

Posted on 8/8/17 at 2:56 pm
Posted by goldennugget
Hating Masks
Member since Jul 2013
24514 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 2:56 pm
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/272270/



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I use DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine, and Bing as my fallback. Instead of Gmail, I spend a few bucks a month with a reliable web-hosting service and own my own domain with 1,000 email addresses and unmetered bandwidth. There are no Google apps on my phone to report my every movement and all my metadata back to the mothership.

These are easy steps almost anyone can take to rid themselves of this meddlesome priest.
Posted by Salmon
On the trails
Member since Feb 2008
83510 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 2:58 pm to
I wonder how many people Google this
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How to live a Google free life
Posted by Jorts R Us
Member since Aug 2013
14786 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 2:59 pm to
I just tried using duck duck go to search for a tax issue in India and the results were subpar vs what google provided, so no thanks.
This post was edited on 8/8/17 at 3:00 pm
Posted by DisplacedBuckeye
Member since Dec 2013
70713 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:00 pm to
quote:

Google free life


Pass.
Posted by BamaAtl
South of North
Member since Dec 2009
21857 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:01 pm to
quote:

There are no Google apps on my phone to report my every movement and all my metadata back to the mothership.


He's probably using an Android phone, which means all of these data are reported back to Google anyway.

Idiots.
Posted by Wildcat In Germany
Metro Atlanta
Member since May 2017
3094 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:02 pm to
I like making my life easier, not harder. I will continue to use Google. It makes my life easier.
Posted by Seldom Seen
Member since Feb 2016
39990 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:02 pm to
I already do use duckduckgo, I only have a gmail account so I can use the play store but I don't use for email. I can't switch to an iphone cause I hate apple too.
Posted by Hawkeye95
Member since Dec 2013
20293 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:03 pm to
quote:

Bing as my fallback

microsoft is the same as google with regards to diversity.

and bill gates is a flaming leftist.

Tech leans left or libertarian. You can't escape supporting them.
Posted by anc
Member since Nov 2012
17979 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:09 pm to
The problem is Google and Facebook are so much a part of daily life that they will continue to flourish even though they are progressive utopias with the end goal of pushing America into a new age of progressivism.

It took someone like Trump to overcome the machine in 2016. You won't always have that type of candidate to overcome the straight propaganda from these type of sites.

Posted by Pettifogger
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Member since Feb 2012
79032 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:13 pm to
haha

can't believe you're celebrating Robert George
Posted by Yak
DuPage County
Member since May 2014
4672 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:13 pm to
Gabriel Weinberg, the owner of DuckDuckGo:

Posted by Old Hellen Yeller
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2014
9414 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:16 pm to
Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
31407 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:37 pm to
quote:

He's probably using an Android phone, which means all of these data are reported back to Google anyway.

Idiots.


so you just made up something you think is idiotic, attributed it to someone without an ounce of support, and then called that person an idiot.

and we wonder...
This post was edited on 8/8/17 at 5:10 pm
Posted by ShortyRob
Member since Oct 2008
82116 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:41 pm to
The hardest part of living Google Free right now is I hate Apple.

I ain't buying no blackberry!!!
Posted by ShortyRob
Member since Oct 2008
82116 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:42 pm to
quote:

Gabriel Weinberg, the owner of DuckDuckGo:
Posted by russellvillehog
Member since Apr 2016
9711 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:45 pm to
quote:

He's probably using an Android phone, which means all of these data are reported back to Google anyway.

Idiots.


Sadly I hate your position on most things, but he is right. What is sad is android is the superior product to Apple. If you own an iPhone it saves all your info for Apple. Both companies are bad
Posted by JawjaTigah
Bizarro World
Member since Sep 2003
22493 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:45 pm to
Google Free? That's like FB Free. That's like cutting the cable. I might actually have to think and feel and live like an autonomous unit?
Posted by stat19
Member since Feb 2011
29350 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:46 pm to
Haven't used Google anything in over 8 years.

Windows Phone and Bing search.
Posted by IAmReality
Member since Oct 2012
12229 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:47 pm to
I switched to DuckDuckGo last year... I'll be honest, it's pretty bad compared to Google, but I still try to use it as much as I can.

The bigger problem is phones. If you want a smartphone there is pretty much Apple and Google, those two have a monopoly on the market in terms of smartphone platforms and they are both evil companies.
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
67972 posts
Posted on 8/8/17 at 3:47 pm to
Very easy. I don't use Google or any of their products.
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