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How (and why) to de-Google your life and protect your privacy | Proton (proton.me)

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Google is one of the biggest obstacles to privacy. This article will explore how and why to de-Google yourself to reclaim and protect your digital privacy.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is no reason other than greed that tech companies have to have their fingers in so many pies. Regulators could split Google up - search separated from ads and separated from other services.

It's not the size so much as the breadth of it's influence. We've gotten used to the idea that tech companies like Google and Microsoft do everything. But they're only doing everything so they can get at every bite of our data. An email service doesn't need to be run alongside a search engine or a news aggregator or an ad company. And certainly doesn't need integration between all those things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Doesn't need to be as wide coverage as Google. If you only provide email service and half the population of US population is using your service, the government will come after you and ask for unlimited access to people's emails. That is already quite a lot of data. But agreed when you are like google, you basically have every piece of knowledge required to completely map someone's life. Fucked up shit.