Ask HN: How have you left Google's services?

Re:Ask HN: How have you left Google's services? by jstayton on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @11:56AM (#12298261)

> I use Dropbox instead of Drive and Photos.

For the privacy-conscious, Dropbox is saddled with the same pitfalls as Google and Facebook, unfortunately.

> Google Search is hard to replace because of the quality. Bing is ok but not close in quality.

https://disconnect.me/search used to show Google search results, but it looks like Google has blocked it for the time being.

I personally use https://duckduckgo.com/. The quality of results is definitely below Google, but I believe that'll only improve as more people switch to them.

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Re:Ask HN: How have you left Google's services? by Socketubs on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:07PM (#12298368)

I agree that Dropbox is nearly same than Google for privacy but it can be a first step to split your data between multiple companies instead of giving all your data to Google.

I know it's totally not perfect, but is it logical?

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Re:Ask HN: How have you left Google's services? by jstayton on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:12PM (#12298401)

Yeah, I think that's a fair point, and can certainly be a logical step toward increased privacy.

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