The Chrome team says they’re not going to pursue Web Integrity but…
it is piloting a new Android WebView Media Integrity API that’s “narrowly scoped, and only targets WebViews embedded in apps.”
They say its because the team “heard your feedback.” I’m sure that’s true, and I can wildly speculate that all the current anti-trust attention was a factor too.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 year ago
K, I’m still not using Google search engine anymore. And once I find a replacement for any other Google services and devices I have, it’s out with those as well.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Both leaving reddit and leaving google s.e. were two things that I thought would be harder than they were.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 year ago
Just need to install Linux as your primary OS and your transition to software freedom will be complete.
spudwart@spudwart.com 1 year ago
Leaving google isn’t hard.
Leaving YouTube specifically, however… Well, it’s been getting easier as content seems to be less and less frequent or quality.
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I still worry that leaving Reddit is going to make it tilt to the right. I spent a decade posting there in the hopes that it would nudge people towards sanity.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The hard part is the cost difference (I haven’t looked terribly deeply yet) Family Proton (3TB) is 395 AUD (when you sign up for 2 years)
2 TB, 125 AUD per year for google drive, and it’s per year.
Pro-rata that’s literally twice as expensive, and you have to sign up for 2 years to get that rate, which makes moving my stuff a hard pill to swallow :(
Is there a plug and play service that’s as good as proton without the hefty premium?
foggy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ahem, will edit this in a moment…
xrtxn@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I replaced gmail with protonmail and everything else with nextcloud. Couldn’t go back.
Crisis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hosting your own nextcloud I’m guessing?
If so how did you install it?
kzhe@lemm.ee 1 year ago
After a lot of privacy switching I finally did try NextCloud, but I couldn’t get port forwarding to work on my Internet and gave up… For now
netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Based
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Question: can email from gmail be imported into proton mail?
Swarfega@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Honestly. Off the back of this debacle I switched to Firefox and duckduckgo. Previously I used to use the shit out of incognito because I hated that when I searched for something once that I then get that thing popping up everywhere else. Since the switch I no longer get the feeling of being stalked.
squiblet@kbin.social 1 year ago
NoScript helps a lot, too. I suppose other extensions also. It’s horrifying how many sites embed Google and Facebook tracking, including ones that really shouldn’t like medical sites and banks.
squiblet@kbin.social 1 year ago
My concern is saving my email and photos before my account is randomly banned one day with no customer service and no recourse. God only knows what data they already harvested from when I used to back up my photos with their service.
Open_Mike@artemis.camp 1 year ago
Just grab a copy using Google Takeout, then after that use Syncrify, FolderSync, Resilio Sync or something else to automatically copy your phone media to your computer.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year ago
ecosia.org as a search engine :) Uses bing in the background (and newly also google), but your data isn’t sold (AFAIK).
Or duckduckgo.com
If you want opensource there’s YaCy
kzhe@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m on Kagi but I did the one time payment and am unsure about whether I’ll extend. Results are good but 10 dollars a month isn’t insignificant (cheap plan is orders of magnitude less than what I need in searches)
railsdev@programming.dev 1 year ago
I use SearXNG. Google’s search results aren’t even good anymore so there’s really no excuse not to switch at this point. For awhile I couldn’t break the habit but recently Google has gotten considerably worse.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I used Ecosia for a long time (almost 5 years) but the search results are pretty bad. Often I had to use another search engine to actually find what I was looking for. DuckDuckGo is pretty good, Brave Search is OK as well but SearXNG is my personal favorite.
railsdev@programming.dev 1 year ago
Hardcore Mode on IVPN is insane (it blocks Google). Sadly it’ll break a lot of stuff though, but fuck Google.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I adjusted my entire digital life so I can do everything without ever connecting to Google services. I block them in my self-hosted Pi-Hole, on NextDNS and in my OPNsense Firewall.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
On the topic of this, what is the best alternative out there? A few years ago I’ve tried a couple options, out of curiosity, but the search quality was super poor for anything that’s not in English, and the accuracy of found content wasn’t always there
fiddlestix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I reckon Kagi is the best start engine out there. It’s paid though. Second I’d have Qwant followed by DDG.
Paradox@lemdro.id 1 year ago
Best? Kagi. Best free? Probably bing