Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by mianos on Saturday August 22, 2020 @07:10PM (#24248023)

It seems to me gmail has not changed much in the last few years. Search is much the same but worse. The only change seems to be snippets that, for me, usually host some badly scraped content from another site with wrong answers but more effort on SEO. It seems a bit of a waste of 20% of the page. I wonder what those tens of thousands of people are mainly doing? Maybe working on stuff that we never see, like applying bandaids and string to hold together the ever growing infrastructure that provides the mediocre apps to more and more of the world?

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by jrnichols on Saturday August 22, 2020 @07:24PM (#24248127)

I wonder what they're doing, and then I look at the educational space and I realize just what's happening. And I'm kind of alarmed by it, to be honest. Call me paranoid, but we have a growing generation of kids in school that only know Google services. The only web browser is Google Chrome. The only email is Gmail. All word/spreadsheet/etc is Google Docs. School is Google Classroom. Chat is Google Messenger or whatever it it. Google Photos. Google Search. Google Cloud. Google Drive. Google Video or Youtube. ALL they see all day in and out at school are Google properties.

I can't be the only one that has noticed this over the years.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by Qwertious on Sunday August 23, 2020 @03:40AM (#24250291)

Google sounds like Microsoft 20 years ago, but perhaps without falling into Microsoft's specific mistake of shoddy software.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by arsenico on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:01AM (#24250384)

Pretty much the same as it was with MSFT for a while.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by bb88 on Saturday August 22, 2020 @07:21PM (#24248106)

I really enjoyed google inbox. Gmail moved a few things over from it, but what I really appreciated was archiving everything older than a month, because usually it was promotional crap anyway.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by javier2 on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:10PM (#24248402)

I also really enjoyed Inbox

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by d3nj4l on Sunday August 23, 2020 @11:05PM (#24257228)

In my circle, everyone who used Inbox loved it. One of the most bizarre decisions Google ever made was cutting it.

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