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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by tjr225 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @07:59PM (#17881873)
Not using google is actually a piece of cake. Ther are reasonable competitors for nearly all of their services, except maybe translate and maps. Though I have been looking at OSM a lot lately.

I, personally, use an DuckDuckGo, an iPhone and Apple mail. Amazon isn't an issue really- just buy whatever you were going to get on amazon somewhere else - it's pretty rare that I find a noticeable price difference (unless we're talking about the cheap off branded stuff on amazon - but I don't want things like that anyway).

Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by KAMSPioneer on Thursday August 30, 2018 @09:55PM (#17882339)
DeepL is a good alternative to Google Translate, though it is quite a bit more limited in terms of features and languages. I often find DeepL translations to be of higher quality than Google's (for the 2-3 languages I regularly translate between).
Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by LoSboccacc on Friday August 31, 2018 @03:47AM (#17883712)
> Not using google is actually a piece of cake

not using google is easy, not losing data for 15+ years and counting is significantly harder. even Apple dropped my photos due term of service change, I had to scramble gigabites off internet into disks and now my collection is an unindexed mess.

Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by icebraining on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:10AM (#17884306)
To be fair to Google, they (mostly) make it fairly easy to move out; exporting your Photos with Takeout returns a nice archive where each image is accompanied by a JSON file with metadata. It's not any standard format, as far as I can tell, but should be easy enough to massage into whatever you want.