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Right now a lot of us are trying to divest and diversify from having our entire lives on Google both because of the way Google spends its money and the long-standing privacy concerns seeming a bit more scary now.

What services have you switched to and what has your experience been? What do you like, what don't you like, would you recommend them?

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[–] tfm@europe.pub 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Chrome ➡️ Brave - Open source and privacy focused

Search ➡️ Qwant - Good search results and privacy focusing

Photos ➡️ Immich - Pretty much Google Photos but self hosted

Drive ➡️ Nextcloud - Use it with Hetzner Storage Share, pretty cheap and easy to use

Gmail ➡️ mailbox.org - European email hosting focusing on privacy

Meet ➡️ Nextcloud

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No. Brave builds on top of the Chromium engine which is from Google but open source.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No it doesn't. If Google stops supporting it, the community forks it and continues development. Has happened often in the past.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 8 hours ago

You can't just fork a browser engine. You need a lot of resources to keep one alive. The only browser engine that I know of which was successfully forked was goanna. And that's a gecko fork from when it wasn't even multithreaded, and it still took years.

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