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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by boocoo on Saturday August 22, 2020 @03:28PM (#24246606)
For one, Google could identify you since on Chrome you might have your name, address, and phone number saved for auto-fill, and sell your information to companies. They could sell your information to a certain company if their AI identifies you, for example, as a left-wing elderly male. I think the recent documentary that got deleted off Youtube explains it.

Google also censors results a lot compared to Yahoo and DuckDuckGo so you'll mostly get popular sites. An example is how when I searched "youtube deleted documentary" Yahoo and DuckDuckGo got the right results but Google didn't.

For Youtube, it dominates video uploading so it can delete and censoring things easily and all you can do is complain.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by nickelpro on Saturday August 22, 2020 @03:31PM (#24246638)
None of those things affect my life. They may be moral or principle concerns for you, but they're not for me.
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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by simplehuman on Saturday August 22, 2020 @05:16PM (#24247317)
Why should i care for your opinion? It does not affect my life.

See, its easy to type nonsense like this.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by angrais on Saturday August 22, 2020 @07:46PM (#24248245)
But what you typed is not nonsense. Much like this, e.g. I don't care what you think :)

If we all cared about what every other hackernews user wrote ... We'd probably go a wee bit mad. Certainly my thumbs would be side from responding to y'all

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by mda on Saturday August 22, 2020 @07:25PM (#24248130)
Also the claims are mostly BS.
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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by wyxuan on Saturday August 22, 2020 @07:58PM (#24248315)
Global warming is pretty much fact verified by science.

The 1984 scenario claimed by some people on the other hand is a hypothetical, with some more confident than others that it’s going to happen.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by nickelpro on Saturday August 22, 2020 @04:34PM (#24247059)
Global warming affects every person on Earth, I don't think Google's data collection negatively affects a single digit percent of their customers, much less the majority. I don't get the comparison.
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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by Razengan on Saturday August 22, 2020 @04:19PM (#24246953)
This post is not just for you.
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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by nickelpro on Saturday August 22, 2020 @04:21PM (#24246970)
No, but this reply was for me
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