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pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Google is a fucking monopoly. (Please do not use any Google product. If you care about freedom, there are tons of alternatives for most products.)
Start with:
switch to DuckDuckGo search or Brave Search
switch to Firefox on your phone and use uBlock Origin (not the weak lite version, but the full Origin version)
Good job you’ve done 80% of the work. You can continue to de-Google
btw
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
benny@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I switched to Vivaldi and ecosia, barely notice a difference.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Ecosia is OK, but if you use Vivaldi (I’m guessing it’s Chromium) you will give power to Google. If we want to fight Google, there are three main areas.
1 - The most important is search (fortunately they suck and it’s easy to change).
2 - The second most important is Chromium (there is only one alternative, Firefox - I don’t count Safari because it’s for Apple devices). Firefox has Manifest V2; if we lose this, we lose great power.
3 - The third most important is YouTube. I think this is the hardest one because maintaining a video-sharing platform is very expensive, and it’s not something that can live just with donations.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
YouTube has to be replaced with a decentralized torrent-like based system where every user shares the load with what they are watching.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
this could be great for popular content
benny@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Vivaldi also kept Manifest V2, so old extensions do keep working there. They also have a mastodon server, and email/calendar/feeds, so they offer more more of the box than Firefox. Lots of projects built on other open source projects like Chromium and KDE do offer legitimate alternatives.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m not talking about “now”; I’m talking about the future. Enshittification is inevitable in proprietary software.
Free-software licenses provide risk mitigation against different legal threats or behaviors that are seen as potentially harmful by developers:
Frequently used protective and permissive licenses AGPLv3 GPLv3 GPLv2 LGPLv3 LGPLv2.1 MPLv2 Apache-2.0 BSD SaaS/cloud Yes No No No No No No No Tivoization Yes Yes No Yes No No No No Patent trolling Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No Proprietization Yes Yes Yes Partial Partial Partial No No Granularity Project Project Project Library Library File - - Trademark grant ? ? ? ? ? No No No
njordomir@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For #3, how much would it actually cost to host a medium sized YouTube channel on peertube? I top off my prepaid hosting costs every few years to cover my website’s remarkably high traffic (just me and a few other people :P). Consequently I have no idea how much it would cost to self host a site with actual visitors and video content.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I guess too much because think like you have 1000 videos each video is ~500 mb (also you’ll need to store 144p, 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p versions) let’s say 1 GB storage for each video, total storage need: 1TB just for one channel it’s ok but there would be like 10k channel at least
1 TB * 10000 = 20 TB * 500 = 500 hard disk with 20 TB
let’s say each one is $350 total $175,000 (and this is hard disk I thing you’re not going to use hard disks)
(and this is just storage I don’t know about traffic costs)
TractorDuffy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
the only thing I can’t replace yet is Maps. reviews, photos, in-trip driving instructions, it’s just so full-featured I can’t imagine myself without it
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
benny@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
OSM from F-Droid is the way, but there are a lot of apps now based on OSM data that are also very good like organic maps. It can be hard to switch over metadata, and you might lose some of the conveniences, but it’s manageable or even better for some uses like hiking.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
actually I’m using CoMaps (an OrganicMaps fork I switched because OrganicMaps had some bad decisions e.g:promoting KAYAK links)
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My main problem now is that Google has a monopoly on the Android app store. Plus, most banking apps use play services, so good luck using your own phone ROM.
njordomir@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My bank has a mobile site that is more functional than their app. I guess that’s not the case for every bank.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I just changed my bank (they said me you are using a custom rom bla bla, not even root)
do they except from me to throw my phone away becuase it’s old? hardware is working great >5 years but they limit the software and of course I will pass that limit
it’s not that hard to do if a company don’t accept/respect your choice then you shouldn’t accept them
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I use a custom ROM (idk if this is the right word). I don’t have Google Services or any Google apps. My previous banking app didn’t accept custom ROMs, so I just canceled that and switched to one that does accept them. Now my banking app works great and I have no problems on my phone.
scala@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Don’t use brave it’s still chromium/ pays Google
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I use Firefox bro 🦊
scala@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Waterfox ftw.
Honestly Firefox is fine for now until they add their AI shit
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They added AI kill-switch (will come in v148)Image
nforminvasion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And yet it has some of the best fingerprint randomization techniques. Down to some insane details. And before you say, just use the Tor browser for that… I do. But that is a different type of resistance, uniformity. Which is great for some use cases, but randomization also works even better in other situations… Eg, personalized browsers with a few extra extensions and customizations.