De-Google Your Life - Part 1: Start With Chrome
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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    6 months ago

    I want to get off Google photos, but I also don’t want to pay a subscription. And I don’t really want to self host. A pay once service I’d accept, but I haven’t seen one with an extremely cursory search. I don’t need any fancy features. Just store the photos, let me see them online, and let me put them in albums.

    • Bruhh@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      If its free, then you are the product. Can’t really expect to switch to another free product and expect any form of privacy. You could try Microsoft’s One Drive but it isn’t much different. I’ve been recommending Ente Photos which is a subscription but it’s worth it for me. About 3 or 4 bucks a month for 50GB.

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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        6 months ago

        If its free, then you are the product

        Right. I get that. But I’d like to just pay once. I don’t like subscriptions. But since file storage has ongoing costs, it seems unlikely anyone would offer a pay-once-and-we’ll-host-your-files.

        • Bruhh@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          There is pcloud and filen.io both have lifetime plans but I’m not sure how close you can get to something like Google Photos or Ente Photos with these providers.

  • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Brave has an openly homophobic founder, it’s weird to me that they’d mention the crypto issues and not this

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Yes, I did it oftn. But main reason to avoid Brave is the somewhat fishy Crypto Policy and the betrayal of users in the past, redirecting searches to related crypto companies, which shows dubious business ethics regarding the user. For me Brave is simply not trustworth.

    • Ilandar@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      I agree and I still have my doubts that he would personally use many of these alternatives. Still, we should not gatekeep the message. Anyone this big discussing the positives of de-googling will certainly push it further into mainstream society.

      • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        That’s besides the point. LTT is a corporation at this point so they’ll use whatever corporations use. The video provided genuine value for its audience so they deserve praise for that.

        • bob_lemon@feddit.de
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          6 months ago

          They did a video about alternatives to Adobe a while back. And while they generally liked and praised programs such as Affinity, they did conclude that as a company, even minor losses in productivity (e.g. for their editors) quickly add up.

          So yeah, it would not be the first time they present and praise alternatives even of they don’t end up using them.

  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al
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    6 months ago

    For the lazy like myself

    This video is about how to degoogle your life, czyli [in Polish] to minimize your reliance on Google products and services.

    In the first part of the video, the speaker discusses why you might want to degoogle your life. They mention that Google collects a lot of data on its users, and that this data is used to target ads and to train machine learning algorithms. The speaker also argues that Google’s services are becoming less and less usable.

    The speaker then provides a number of alternatives to Google products and services. Here are a few examples:

    • Search engines: DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Ecosia, Brave Search
    • Email: Proton, Tuta
    • Photo backup: Ente, Stingle, PhotoSync, Image
    • DNS: Quad9, NextDNS, Cloudflare

    The speaker acknowledges that there are many other alternatives available, and that this is just a starting point. They also recommend checking out the sponsor of the video, Pulseway, which is a monitoring and management software.

    The video ends with a call to action, encouraging viewers to watch part two of the series.