when Google launched Gmail in 2004 it
was almost unheard of to trade away your
personal data for a service but Gmail
had a bunch of cool features including a
spam filter that was amazing
so a lot of people including myself
signed up I use Google in ways for
navigation chrome is my default browser
drive has all my documents and like
everybody else I'm on YouTube way more
often than I should be oh and let's not
forget Google's first product their
search engine anything I search for
online runs through it so yeah Google
knows a lot about me but after their
social network Google+ had a data leak
and the company didn't really bother to
tell anybody I decided it was time to
quit Google or at least try to I know I
can't quit completely I have four Google
home devices in my apartment so I can
still use them to turn on the lights but
I'm not going to use them for any Google
functions like my calendar or email or
anything like that
insider runs on Gmail Google Calendar
Google Docs so I'm gonna have to make an
exception for everything I do at work as
well see I haven't started yet and I
already have two caveats Google is
really good at a lot of things it might
actually be a lot of work to do this
here's a rundown of all the alternatives
I'll be using goodbye Google so it's
been about a week that I haven't used
Google and everything else is kind of
terrible the email service collab now
that I was trying to use I couldn't get
it to work on my phone I tried all
different ways to set it up and none of
them would work I tried searching for a
specific tweet on DuckDuckGo and the
results were just terrible so I'm now
using both Bing and Yahoo and those are
a little better I even forgot that yahoo
was a search engine so that is now the
default search engine on my phone when
I'm searching for some reference for
something for a story I try and use the
filters on Google and you can really
narrow down the dates that way and Yahoo
and Bing don't really have those
fine-tuned controls for Firefox it
crashed with 15 tabs open I usually run
about 50 tabs in chrome so I will
definitely be going back to chrome when
the
is over with the other thing with
Firefox is it zooms out of the page
really easily as soon as you hit the
command T if you have two fingers on the
trackpad like you would as if you were
scrolling or anything else it'll just
zoom in or zoom out it's really annoying
another issue I found is that my
girlfriend I both use Google Calendar
and that's how we kind of coordinate
what we're doing or where we are so not
being able to do that is a little
frustrating another issue on my iPhone
is I can't use G board right now and the
default Apple keyboard sucks I don't
know why they haven't changed it you
still have to tap every button that you
want to press and with G board you can
just swipe it you can search for emojis
you can search for gifts it's the best
iPhone keyboard possible and not being
able to use it is very frustrating a
cool thing from using Apple maps that I
learned is that if somebody has recently
text you an address and you open up
Apple maps Siri will suggest that
address automatically as your
destination and you can click a little
thing like oh yeah that's the one I want
and it will fill it in automatically a
problem with the Apple maps though is
that it doesn't give you the detailed
traffic data then you get from Google
Maps it did show congestion you know the
green the yellow along the route but it
didn't give me the update of oh this is
going to add five minutes to your trip
this is going to add ten minutes to your
trip and Google Maps is really good at
doing that when you're stuck in traffic
so part of the reason I wanted to try
this experiment was because that I knew
they had so much information about me
but using all these disjointed services
makes it difficult and it's less
convenient to do a lot of things online
so maybe I don't think I should be
giving them all of my personal data but
maybe just a little bit is okay as long
as I can manage my personal info and
other settings on Google's personal info
and privacy manager I'm okay sharing
some information about myself
hey Google log me back in hello Google
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