Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to deGoogle@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish · edit-26 days agoCompletely Disable Gemini From Spying On Your Google Acccountlemmy.caimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1460arrow-down13file-text
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minus-squarekryptonidaslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down5·6 days agoIf you periodically have to turn off checkboxes in products to feel your data is better protected: it’s really not just move to something else That way you also stop sponsoring said company.
minus-squareBosht@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·6 days agoCriticizing is easy, try offering solutions as well. If there are people that use Google’s slew of products, what’s an alternative they can move to?
minus-squarelonerangers1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 days agosyncthing and KDE connect do a great job of replacing all kinds of google features.
minus-square___@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·6 days agoAt this point, self hosting seems to be the best way to use these sorts of services and still have a semblance of privacy. But I understand that’s well outside the scope of less techie users
If you periodically have to turn off checkboxes in products to feel your data is better protected:
That way you also stop sponsoring said company.
Criticizing is easy, try offering solutions as well. If there are people that use Google’s slew of products, what’s an alternative they can move to?
syncthing and KDE connect do a great job of replacing all kinds of google features.
At this point, self hosting seems to be the best way to use these sorts of services and still have a semblance of privacy. But I understand that’s well outside the scope of less techie users