This article is about removing google from your life. Does this feel like I am writing a breakup handling tutorial? Yes. But jokes aside, It is actually pretty useful.
This article follows this LTT series and summarises things with links.
Why do this? you might ask? Because google has a monopoly on your apps and your data.
Part 1
Here is the video.
Browser
65.34% of the world uses chrome, which excludes Chromium based browsers.
Why is it smart to not use chrome?
- Manifest v3 is rolling around
- privacy
- monopoly
I personally switched from OperaGX to Arc, because I like the Obsidian-ish feel.
I personally switched to zen which is a firefox reskin.
Search
This is talking about, what happens when you ramble random characters into the search bar like so:
In this example: it will use google to google it.
In most browsers you can change this.
I personally switched to Duckduckgo
Options (big tech):
Options (not big tech):
I started using Proton mail, It automatically forwards my gmails and i can generate aliases.
google photos
Personally not going to do this, since I have unlimited storage, so idc.
DNS
Can’t be bothered.