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Google is causing a huge number of headaches of late. The gsuite withdrawal, the forced retiring of perfectly usable apps, the lack of any customer redressal if you get caught in cross fire, the banning of political youtube channels in certain countries, ...

I am actively moving email and data on to my own servers before even more things go down catastrophically.




I agree. I'm in the process of moving all my services to my own domain so if the worst happens I don't lose access to my primary email address. Anything I upload to GDrive is backup only. I would love if Rumble were to take off because YouTube's censorship over the last couple of years is becoming concerning.


I started the slow process of de-googling my life a few years ago. Google is so bad these days, it's not that hard to replace all the google things. Except one – YouTube.

Gmail -> Fastmail

Browser -> Firefox / Safari

Phone -> iPhone

Google -> DDG

Google Calendar -> Fastmail calendar

Google maps -> Apple Maps

The list goes on and on.


> Google maps -> Apple Maps

No, Google maps -> Wikimapia/OSM.




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