Google logged nearly 24,000 interactions with me in a single month.Every search. Every map route. Every YouTube video. Every document edit. Every app downloa...
  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
    61·
    5 months ago

    Without having watched it, I’ll guess stopping it goes in the line of “little by little, but growing ever more independant from it”.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
      44·
      5 months ago

      That’s what I’m doing…

      Switch away from Google Chrome to [redacted].

      Switch away from Google Search to [redacted].

      Get a free [redacted] account and start moving accounts.

      Use [redacted] instead of Google Maps, discover [redacted] is now owned by Google, buy a fucking atlas. Fuck this timeline.

      Next step/shit to figure out:

      Move my contacts off of Google.

      The Last Thing I’ll Do: Migrate Photos to a self-hosted solution.

      Edit: Why is this downvoted? Did you guys follow me from reddit lol

      Edit 2: Removed any mention of software that may have offended people.

      • stoicEuropean@lemmy.ml
        4·
        5 months ago

        I can recommend HereWeGo as an alternative to Maps. I switched two years ago and I am quite happy with it ever since.

        • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          5 months ago

          Installed. But, long term, how do they plan to pay their bills?

          Also, any advice for a text-to-speech engine on Graphene? Here We Go won’t talk to me without one.

          • WilkoW@feddit.uk
            3·
            5 months ago

            SherpaTTS is what I use for text to speech on GrapheneOS. Works fine with herewego.

      • Milk@lemdro.idEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Try using CoMaps or Organic Maps. I prefer Co Maps over Organic Maps but each their own.