What pitfalls or losses of data have those that have done this run into . It's such a sneaky and pervasive service . I hate to lose important info or connectivity to sites like this .

I did make sure to Google "how do you eliminate google and amazon from your life " this morning , maybe we can make this a trending search today

Try duckduckgo’s search engine. It doesn’t totally avoid google but it helps. Conservative billionaires need to step up and taking over some of the media! Parlors CEO is already talking about building there own data centers to get back on the internet!!

I have a Saved video on How to un Google your phone , need to watch it.

I'll be following your thread

Deleting Goobers is easier said than done. They are Big Brother. It's tentacles reach everywhere. Your computer and your android phone. You only get to see what they want you to see. Search engine, gmail, youtube, android, chrome, the list goes on.

I've read where there are only two search engines. Goobers and Bing, which is owned by Microsoft. Duck Duck runs on Bing.......it only screens user data from Bing. But I've read where 95% of searches run on goobers, which monitors every click you make. IP address or phone and follows you wherever you go. Grocery store, bass pro, church or strip club. They know where you are and where you been. And may be listening to every word you say.

So with goobers, you don't pick it.......it controls you. Not the same with Twitter and Faceplant. You get to chose those. Twitter stock is down nearly 10% today alone. People leaving in droves. You don't need either of those.

But there are 4 companies that run it all. Apple, google, microsoft and amazon (whose primary business is not retail.....it's web hosting).

Duck duck says after you use it , Who tried to infiltrate and who they blocked ie: Google, yahoo etc

Just info, I haven't tried it yet.

Wonder how many crimes have been solved by tracking phone and computer usage? Not all is bad.

Lets compare that to the number of abuses of the phone tracking and computer usage -- not good.

Go to your google account settings. Click on data and personalization. Once in there, turn off the location history. Once that's turned off, Google will stop collecting constant location information from your phone. If it's on, your phone/google account has been sending it.

I highly recommend using the Brave browser. It is privacy focused, automatically blocks ads and scripts from running on your device, and can actually pay you to view ads as it's integrated in to a cryptocurrency network. You'll never look back to Firefox, Chrome, or IE again.

I found it interesting that the ACLU was voicing some concerns regarding the banishment of POTUS and others from Twitter with regards to free speech.

Exactly

I just did that

Very good video

Good

feds know everyone who was at capitol Jan 6 with a phone in their pocket.

Even The Chubacca guy?

Man, I'd love to but its hard to find good alternatives. I love the convenience of integration. Google is not just a search engine. I use Google photos, docs, sheets, and email for both personal and business. Everything is backed up automatically and accessible from any device. I can create a document on my computer in the morning, go to work, read and edit it on my phone, take pics and add them to the document, then go home at night and review/edit all of them. Seamlessly and free.

I know convenience comes at a cost, but quitting comes at a cost too. I'm trying to estimate how many extra office hours it would add without these services. I haven't found an alternative platform that comes even close.

When it comes to tech, it seems we're stuck between a rock and a hard place. The only viable American-based companies are Alphabet (Google), Microsoft and Apple. None of them are savory. You can support Asian companies like Samsung, but they're most hardware in this country. Or you can just pull the plug I guess.

I'd LOVE to see a major conservative tech company emerge, and I think millions of others would too.

I miss the 70's

You mean they were voicing concerns for the conservative side? If so, this world is really upside down. Maybe some of them do have a conscience!


Me too buddy, me too!

There is a very easy way out of google, but it depends on if you yourself can handle not having a phone to communicate and not being able to acseess sites like this or you can always just throw it all away and live in the bush.