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org@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• thethrilloftime69@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Man how the hell are we supposed to degoogle so fast. I literally only became aware that they sucked like 2 years after them being cool for most of my life. Getting rid of gmail is going to be tough. There literally isn’t a service the equal of YouTube or Gmail.

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  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Snowden was in 2013, bro.

    Use a client for video content like Grayjay (gets rid of the ads too).

    Look at Tuta Mail or Proton Mail as viable privacy focused alternatives.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    at my work, one person decided to start an email group to connect everyone for after hours activities…

    only 2 people out of 20 were non gmail accounts

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  • Daryl76679@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve found ProtonMail to be pretty nice. Easy to import your mail into too. YouTube has been hard though. PeerTube is cool but rather small (feel free to ask my any questions about it though). Ideally we’d be using stuff like Nebula and Patreon to support creators directly, but you can at the very least use a fronted to minimize contact with Google.

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    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Proton mail is compromised I believe. In bed with the administration of the US.

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      • Daryl76679@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What makes you think that?

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    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Grayjay’s kind of nice for that since it aggregates results from all platforms in a search - sometimes missing youtube videos (or stuff that got DMCA’d) can be found in peertube instead.

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  • forestbeasts@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Email might actually be one of the easiest to move off of, thankfully!

    There’s plenty of stuff out there, both free and paid. You can even use your own domain if you have an extra $15 or so a year. A lot of the paid options let you use your domain with them (and then if you ever need to change providers, you can keep your email address). And you can use both webmail and actual mail apps.

    Youtube though… yeah, there aren’t really any good alternatives for that.

    – Frost

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  • org@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They have been evil for over 20 years. What are you on about?

    There are many email providers. Like… thousands. Personally, I use Zoho.

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  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    tutamail.com. tuta.com. No phone required. No email required. No forced 2 factor authorization that is an excuse to grab your personal information to sell it. Never again on any of the tech email companies. Never again. I never agreed to give them my phone, they forced me to years after the fact when I needed to get in there suddenly.

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    • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No forced 2 factor authorization that is an excuse to grab your personal information to sell it.

      What?

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      • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Google, yahoo, aol, et al, will, for your own safety, because they are concerned about your security, make you hand over your phone number that they are allowed to use for commercial purposes in their TOS. You are welcome!

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  • FriskyDingo@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    getting rid of gmail was actually the easiest part for me.

    Google drive and maps was the hardest.

    And I had replaced maps pretty well until magicearth decided to implode

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    • RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What happened to magicearth? I haven’t used it much, just one of the google alternatives in my “maps” folder.

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      • FriskyDingo@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They went “freemium” while breaking the app and hiding most useful features behind the paywall.

        And I cannot stress enough how much they broke the app. It used to be so smooth and no nonsense. Now it’s just unsafe to use.

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  • lcimino2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are alternatives to Gmail. I’d probably list out such services as Yahoo/AOL (I personally use the AT&T branded version of this service) and Hotmail (now known as Outlook.​com), but instead I’ll just tell you that you can enter a query like “free email provider” in your web search provider of choice and find several perfectly viable options.

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    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Those are all awful, none of the corporate tech companies are better they are all garbage. If they force you to give them a phone number, they do not deserve your business.

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      • lcimino2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        you do realize he was asking for something “like gmail”, not a good email provider like disroot.org?

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