De-Googling: Why It’s Gaining Momentum And Does It Have Future?

guest · Dec 23, 2019

De-Googling: Why It’s Gaining Momentum And Does It Have Future?
December 23, 2019
https://www.techshout.com/internet/...its-gaining-momentum-and-does-it-have-future/

You may have heard of de-Googling before and, quite possibly, dismissed it as fearmongering or a conspiracy theory. But a surprising number of people are getting drawn into this process. For example, the r/DeGoogle subreddit has more than twenty thousand members.

In case you haven’t heard of it before, de-Googling means removing Google services from your life and replacing them with their analogs. And yes, it includes everything from Gmail to the search engine to Google Chrome.
What are the reasons for de-Googling?
The reason most of those thousands of netizens provide for abandoning the Google ship is privacy concerns. They also cite the old saying: if something is given to you for free, then you are the product.

But for some (most, actually) people, this is either a fair trade for all the amazing services Google allows them to use or something they do not concern themselves with. Then why do degooglers take it to such extremes?
It is a hard question to answer. And perhaps, a better one to ask would be “Why are most of the population so unperturbed by how much Google knows about them?”
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Is de-Googling even possible?
To somebody not from de-Googling communities, it may seem as if cutting oneself from Google and all its services amount to cutting oneself from the internet as a whole. How do these people send emails, go searches, watch videos (because, lest we forget, YouTube belongs to Google and also gathers data about what we watch and how)? These tasks may seem next to impossible to perform without Google.
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Reddit: r/degoogle

Be_Ta · Dec 23, 2019

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How do these people send emails, go searches, watch videos (because, lest we forget, YouTube belongs to Google and also gathers data about what we watch and how)? These tasks may seem next to impossible to perform without Google.

What a lame statement...

techshout?? never heard of them.. No problem doh, since they also never heard of F-Droid or any other email client/hoster then Google it seems.. They do know there exists Software and services besides google? Even self hosted services or my Own cloud.. you know?!?!..

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Page42 · Dec 23, 2019

Be_Ta said: ↑

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How do these people send emails, go searches, watch videos (because, lest we forget, YouTube belongs to Google and also gathers data about what we watch and how)? These tasks may seem next to impossible to perform without Google.
What a lame statement...
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It's a rhetorical question.

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