I’ve switched to Kagi for search, and Fastmail for email. Though a bit more difficult to escape Google when you’ve got a pixel 8 pro ;)
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
LoL no shit. You don’t even need to be an employee to figure this out. Even as a customer I feel that way. I’m looking to leave Google altogether.
bloopernova@programming.dev 7 months ago
badmemes@feddit.de 7 months ago
Let me introduce you to graphene os :)
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 7 months ago
Whaaaat, it’s supported now? It wasn’t for a bit. Man, I may have to make the jump soon, or at least just test it out. It’s been a while since I’ve played with a custom ROM though, since the pixels are a great vanilla experience.
iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Rather easier I’d say, as it has an unlockable bootloader, unlike most other phones.
kzhe@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Only the google edition, not carrier versions.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
If you have a pixel phone, there are completely de-Googled android operating systems available for them with full hardware support.
kzhe@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Actually, it’s easiest to escape google with a Pixel, even more than an iPhone with GrapheneOS (only if not a carrier phone though).
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I left Google 5-6 years ago. I do occasionally use YouTube, but that’s about it.
It’s surprisingly easy to get used to once you do it.
nephs@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What did you do about email?
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Protonmail is one of the more popular options.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
This is what I’m planning to do as well.
Patches@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Is the Spam Filtering equally as good?
That’s the reason I went Gmail back in the day.
I get hundreds of emails a day. All filtered out properly.
SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Protonmail
rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I’m not the same person but I jumped ship from Gmail to Outlook (when that big rebrand launched a decade ago) and a few years ago to Fastmail.
It doesn’t hold a candle to ProtonMail’s privacy and security but I found it handy since it’s a complete mail, contacts, calendar solution with syncing via standards and a large number of available aliases. And since I pay, I’m the customer.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Good options exist now, including proton and skiff.
silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today 7 months ago
I went to modify my 2018 Google Wi-Fi router to add a simple port forwarding rule, and the functionality is completely GONE from their already shitty Google Home app. It used to be so easy and simple on the old Wi-Fi app. I’m never buying another Google device.
This company has reached enshittification nirvana.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Google home has become an absolute shit show. It has awful UI and UX. Truly an amazing feat.
iawia@feddit.nl 7 months ago
It’s still there for me in “Advanced networking”->“Port Management”.
silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today 7 months ago
If you click into mine, all you see are two options both of which only serve to allow Google to Hoover more of your data.
Looking into this more a couple days ago, it seemed that without IP reservations, you can’t get the port forwarding option to appear. Which I haven’t messed with. On principal I refuse to deal with a router that has regressed in functionality and am instead dedicating my time to de-Google my life haha. I bought an openwrt compatible router this weekend. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/900cfd9b-ad9c-4a1c-8a41-5ce580c9b353.pnghttps://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/655586bb-2e04-42a6-97f5-75df79fb1915.png
iawia@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I do have a bunch of IP reservations. I don’t really know how you’d do port forwarding without subs static IP address to forward to. I have not seen any of the data sharing options, but it could be that I gave those permissions years ago and forgot…