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What's the main reason you're degoogling? (lazysoci.al)

submitted 1 month ago by CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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I'm new to this idea and a Google girl so I'm interested in learning more. I'm not good with tech, but if it's necessary I'll do it as much as I can.

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[–] 73kk13@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My data is my data. Period. Or at least it should be.
Abuse of position as dominant provider of search engine (incl. censorship) and mobile OS.
Labour Practice.
e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google

Similiar reasons apply to Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, PayPal, X and so on since well before Trump & Co.
e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech

Appologies for my aggressive tone. I really hate these companies / their owners and what they are doing to our society, wellbeing, and humanness. It could have turned out so much different, if not for their greed and egoism!

[–] winni@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I am de-googled for quite a while. Coming across goggle polluted pages and services really makes me feel bad now, like somebody standing behind me and watching

[–] UltraMasculine@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Google collects a lot of personal data and I don't like it. I disabled every Google app and service that was possible without changing OS or rooting the phone. Then I realized that few apps, that are important to me, did not work correctly without Google Services. So unfortunately I had to re-enable it. I'm using VPN though. Hopefully that messes at least a little bit Google's data collecting.

On PC Linux is nowadays my main OS but I have Windows 11 installed too (dual boot). There's still quite many compatibility problems with Linux.

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