The Insanity of Google

The Introduction
Google is a company that originally had the idea in mind to make a web the people would like (correct me on that fact I got it from a biased news source) However the modern Google has become a mess through cookies, trackers, economy. Let me explain
Trackers, Cookie, Spyware
Google is a company that does not worship the privacy of its customers. For example, say you search up something super embarrassing multiple times, like Madonna or WiiMiiSwitch polls. Since you searched it multiple times, Google will log (save) that search and sell the data to advertising companies! Are you comfortable selling your web history to advertising companies?! I'm not for sure. Since they have many services they see what you do there too. This includes but is not limited to Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, Blogger, and many other websites THEY PAY to sell your data. It's worse if you use Google Chrome since they HAVE YOUR HISTORY, however, unlike chromium, it adds trackers that are hard to find since Chrome isn't open source. It's horrible, it's hard to avoid since Google basically owns the "web" but we'll get back to that later
The Google Eco System
It's no doubt that you use Google Services (even at a bare minimum). However, these "services" do not worship the user. How? Simple, for example, you use Google Classroom which is a service for the students, they will give ADS TO YOU BECAUSE YOU USE GOOGLE CLASSROOM. Or let's use a better example. You watch YouTube videos on Vaccum Reviews. You get YouTube ads on vacuums since you looked at vacuums. Then you get those ads on Google since they SPIED ON YOU, then you get those vacuum ads on GMAIL. Then since many sites use Google Ads you get Vacumms there since THEY SPREAD YOUR DATA TO COMPANIES. That's why we have these services like Google Slides which seems unprofitable.
Google Is The Web, Or is It?


Some time ago, I was using Firefox and someone said "Why are you using that, no one uses that!" Why, because back in 2009 Google Chrome was better. People don't realize there are other useable web
browsers that are faster and better because of past slow browsers. Like Internet Explorer, for example, no one uses Edge because they still think Edge freezes like IE. Since Google Chrome was decent in like 2009 people are going to keep using it instead of looking for faster browsers or relooking old ones. People just think Google is the best, unaware of the trackers and the other shit they give you
Is it too late?

No, lots of browsers care about privacy and are much more faster and privacy based then Chrome
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@KleinesSichen They're also available for sale pre-degooglified, for those who can't or won't do it themselves. But for the use cases of most people, they probably wouldn't be happy with it. I don't need apps for everything and I'm just fine with using the websites rather than have an app for every site I use cluttering up my phone. But there are things I couldn't live without like various IM clients. At least the DJI Fly drone app isn't from the Play Store although it may still use google services.
Pure Linux phones may be a better option for some people. The issue is that there are not that many applications optimized for phone touchscreens so you are stuck with using desktop apps for many things, but at least it's fully featured as it can run the existing large library of desktop Linux applications. Not suitable for the casual user mind you but for nerds like a lot of us around here who don't mind tinkering with stuff it's not a bad option.
 
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For me, a pure Linux phone is more hassle right now than I'd like to bother with on a daily basis, I don't mind tinkering and setting stuff up just the way I like it but at the end of the day once I'm done with that I just want stuff to be convenient. But I'm definitely into the idea and I hope the open source community puts work into porting all of the popular Linux software to work well on a phone touchscreen so it can one day be a viable alternative for everyone, I'm sure they hate the current mobile ecosystem more than anyone.
 
If you need a degoogled android experience and don't feel like configuring it yourself I hear that /e/ is a good option. Poor seo aside they seem to have done the leg work of replacing google services with open source alternatives. I haven't used it myself yet, (My carrier requires their own custom rom for reasons that I don't feel like getting into) but from what people on the internet say it's at the very least usable.
I agree that android as it is is terrible. Unfortunately for those of us who wish to keep in touch with those who are less paranoid about their tech it is a bit of a necessity.
Link to /e/ for those who don't wish to search for it --> https://e.foundation/
And if you haven't yet, switch your default search engine to duckduckgo!
@Scott_pilgrim Yeah, brave is bloaty and has their stupid BAT thing. But it's fairly user friendly, unlike Librewolf, which doesn't save cookies or history between sessions. If you can get past that I definitely recommend Librewolf as a privacy conscious choice.
 

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