Getting worse is putting it lightly.
Get the fuck off Google services if you can. Highly recommend Proton mail and drive as a replacement.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
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Moved to Protonmail earlier this year, just cancelled my Drive sub and am looking at switching to Mega
can vouch for mega, been using it for 8 years now with no real issues. only sticking point is file download limits with Firefox, and thats just because im too lazy to download the desktop app
I hate services that force you to download an app when the functionality could be provided in browser. Apps have a lot more permissions to access things that wouldn't be accessible in browser.
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....tell me more of these proton mail services of which you speak!
It's like Gmail except it has a proper dark mode, an actually functional search feature, a functional and user-friendly mail filtering system, you can actually block senders, "All Mail" actually shows you all mail, and also Google isn't reading all your emails...
But I have nothing to hide!
Why shouldN'T sundar the creep read my email and check my nudes?
Ultimately, arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
- snowden
Mullvad also put together this recently: https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/nothing-to-hide
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Been using their paid email, drive and vpn for the last couple of years and their service has been flawless in my experience. Great apps and never had an outage or issues once.
Free versions are available but the paid version is well worth it.
I've been with them for a couple of years too and I use all their services (mail, calendar, drive, VPN, pass and simplelogin) but calling it flawless is a bit of an overstatement.
Their outside communication is nonexistent at best, development speed is unbearably slow and Linux support, the most privacy countious user-base?, is lacking a lot.
Hopefully in the next couple years they sinally manage to release contact sync and a Linux client for Drive.
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I would need to see some alternates for Google Drive in that case.
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It's not even that their results suck, per se, but they straight up ignore most of my search query and focus on one or two words only. Obviously that makes your search results suck.
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Is GN going to put Google on a Performance Improvement Plan like they did with Asus?
You either die a hero or live and watch yourself turn into a villian.
Tom's hardware, woot, and most recently donut media just to name a few. All were once the place to go, they all were bought out by bigger interest and eventually became the villian.
Donut - how? All the giga-sponsors they take lately?
They've been bought by an entertainment parent company, which is why the glut of sponsorships along with their content leaning towards pure entertainment instead of including educational and DIY content. Zach and Jeremiah started their own thing recently and explain in their first video.
I just saw their Big Time video! Glad those guys have the guts to do that.
Google is getting worse everyday and yet we still depends on it everyday
It's ingrained in many places unfortunately. Like aws and Amazon
Microsoft, apple? netflix etc
facebook... shit i bet everyone in this thread hitting 3/5 min
My company's goal seems to be to get themselves more dependent on AWS. They're always talking about which things we can replace with AWS offerings.
I'm the exact opposite. I'm always looking for how to make the things I use more replaceable. That way if a company goes bad, I only need to replace a small part of my stuff.
If AWS goes bad, I'd feel really bad for out devOPs team...
I'm slowly moving away to open source, self-hosted applications where possible. Changed search to a combination of Gibiru and Yep. Email to a mailcow server I host on a vps, and I'm moving photos to an Immich server I'm setting up. Home Automation is next, I have a Raspberry Pi 5 to act as the Home Assistant server. And a few other projects in the works to split from Google as much as I can and mostly it is all better.
Who thinks google will still be a traded company in 10 years?
Yahoo is still around in some form or another.
Alphabet has enough money to persist well after they lose relevance.
Too big to fail? Search is only one revenue stream.
Similar tactic among all the large tech corpos, switch focus to IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, become the backbone of the modern computing landscape.
It's basically a slow switch to becoming critical international infrastructure like power grids, water ways, and gas/oil pipelines.
This all while locking you in as much as possible and milking as much value as they can squeeze.
I mean IBM is still traded but it's a shadow if it's former self
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It's weird that they don't really address the biggest reason Googles algorithm is worse now. The rampant exploitation of SEO.
Bad actors abuse the system in an attempt to be the first result, regardless of relevancy. It's harder for Google to sift the chaff out than it used to be, because they're flooded with content claiming to be related to the search keys.
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