Google logged nearly 24,000 interactions with me in a single month.Every search. Every map route. Every YouTube video. Every document edit. Every app downloa...
  • lemonhead2@lemmy.world
    9 hours

    oh lol. stopped watching the video when he said to protect yourself when browsing sign out of chrome

    how about using a non spyware browser instead? e. g. Firefox

    • MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      11 hours

      I mean, this video is targeting people who are still entangled with Google. If you aren’t, there isn’t much point in watching it, right?

      • tirateimas@lemmy.pt
        11 hours

        If all the good content is still there, people will stay there. Open and ethical platforms need to have content to become an alternative. I hope this content is hosted on PeerTube and other platforms as well.

        • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
          5 hours

          They need to solve paying creators and also what happens when if they get big. How do they scale. Hate YouTube all you want it costs a lot of money to run it and I don’t see federated service replacing it. Also the fact everything us still up there I see that being hard in federation.

          • Voxel@feddit.uk
            4 hours

            I don’t think it needs to be solved, they motivate people to support through other means and have a dedicated support button. Sponsorships are also a thing.

            Regarding scaling, as the name implies, PeerTube makes use of Peer-to-Peer technology to reduce the load of platforms and it’s federated without an “official” instance, which allows content creators to spread across different instances, spreading the load it comes with.

      • Switorik@sh.itjust.works
        9 hours

        I know this question pops up a thousand times but what email do you suggest? I’m trying proton right now.

          • Switorik@sh.itjust.works
            7 hours

            I’ll give it a go.

            Do you have any suggestions on a maps app that is compatible with android auto or is android auto another can of worms?

            • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
              6 hours

              Never needed to mess around with that, so I don’t have any advice.

              As far as maps in general are concerned, I’m currently experimenting with OSM based maps. If you’re on iOS, you can easily get away from google by using apple maps. Not gonna get away from big tech that way, but still…

      • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10 hours

        Stop using android unless it’s Graphene or something like it that’s de-googled. Because a lot of Google’s tracking is done through the play store.

    • Harold@feddit.nlEnglish
      12 hours

      Fair point.

      Although it does have the biggest exposure to Google addicts.

  • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
    10 hours

    The only thing I use is yt from that list, but I don’t use their client

    • weaselsrippedmyflesh@piefed.socialEnglish
      9 hours

      Wish we weren’t stuck with YT, but Peertube and others are not nearly anp viable option yet. Hurray for other clients, though.

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5 hours

      Post it on peertube, and you’ll reach the viewers who don’t even use google adware. Post it on YT, and suddenly you’ll have an audience that realistically could implement the advice.