Anyone made an effort to cut down on his google use?

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Anyone made an effort to cut down on his google use?

Post by Hwen Hoshino » Sat Dec 02, 2017 6:47 am

Because of the dislike of the company.

I did and sometimes i use it just once a day or once a week. i am surprised i pulled it off.

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Post by Montegriffo » Sat Dec 02, 2017 7:26 am

Hwen Hoshino wrote: i am surprised i pulled it off.
That will teach you not to watch so much anime porn in future.
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Post by SuburbanFarmer » Sat Dec 02, 2017 10:28 am

Switched to using DuckDuckGo as my search engine a long time ago. It’s not difficult.
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Post by heydaralon » Sat Dec 02, 2017 10:34 am

Montegriffo wrote:
Hwen Hoshino wrote: i am surprised i pulled it off.
That will teach you not to watch so much anime porn in future.
Hes beyond hope in that department. He could stop using all search engines and he would still find a way, using the weather or dealio toolbar if necessary.
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Post by Montegriffo » Sat Dec 02, 2017 10:59 am

heydaralon wrote:
Montegriffo wrote:
Hwen Hoshino wrote: i am surprised i pulled it off.
That will teach you not to watch so much anime porn in future.
Hes beyond hope in that department. He could stop using all search engines and he would still find a way, using the weather or dealio toolbar if necessary.
Going to be tricky now he's pulled it off.
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Post by Speaker to Animals » Sat Dec 02, 2017 5:53 pm

GrumpyCatFace wrote:Switched to using DuckDuckGo as my search engine a long time ago. It’s not difficult.

I still have to switch back to Google sometimes. DDG is noticeably weaker in both precision and recall, and it absolutely sucks with GIS and localized searches. You probably should use Google for image search unless you don't mind anal pounding porn all over the search results. Turn on safe search and you might get a few dozen shitty images at most.

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Post by doc_loliday » Wed Dec 13, 2017 11:46 pm

In every way I can. Unfortunately, I am tied in some major ways. Getting off that Android is probably not going to happen for a while. I was tempted to get an iPhone but I really like the Android phones better, (I love my note 8). There is no great youtube alternative, they run that site at such a massive loss, I don't see how anyone can beat them, but I do try to use other video sites first.

I use duckduckgo almost exclusively, with some Bing, I'm slowly switching everything to a microsoft email, and don't use chrome anymore. It will be nice to free myself from their social engineering/censorship machine.

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Post by heydaralon » Thu Dec 14, 2017 3:32 pm

doc_loliday wrote:In every way I can. Unfortunately, I am tied in some major ways. Getting off that Android is probably not going to happen for a while. I was tempted to get an iPhone but I really like the Android phones better, (I love my note 8). There is no great youtube alternative, they run that site at such a massive loss, I don't see how anyone can beat them, but I do try to use other video sites first.

I use duckduckgo almost exclusively, with some Bing, I'm slowly switching everything to a microsoft email, and don't use chrome anymore. It will be nice to free myself from their social engineering/censorship machine.
GCF recommended duckduckgo to me and said it was great. I still havent gotten around tonusing it, but I want to. I like google waay more than Bing and Yahoo though
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Post by doc_loliday » Thu Dec 14, 2017 7:47 pm

heydaralon wrote:
doc_loliday wrote:In every way I can. Unfortunately, I am tied in some major ways. Getting off that Android is probably not going to happen for a while. I was tempted to get an iPhone but I really like the Android phones better, (I love my note 8). There is no great youtube alternative, they run that site at such a massive loss, I don't see how anyone can beat them, but I do try to use other video sites first.

I use duckduckgo almost exclusively, with some Bing, I'm slowly switching everything to a microsoft email, and don't use chrome anymore. It will be nice to free myself from their social engineering/censorship machine.
GCF recommended duckduckgo to me and said it was great. I still havent gotten around tonusing it, but I want to. I like google waay more than Bing and Yahoo though
duckduckgo is okay. Sometimes I can't find what I'm looking for, but for the most part it does the job. Bing is actually not that bad. But duckduckgo is best for privacy concerns, no doubt.

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Post by TheReal_ND » Thu Dec 14, 2017 8:13 pm

https://searx.me

https://www.ixquick.com

https://www.qwant.com

https://www.yandex.com

Qwant is French and interesting sometimes. Yandex is Russian. I believe Start and DuckDuck both use google but supposedly don't do the thing that it do where it invades your privacy.

Ultimately there really isn't a competitor for google but using these when you are trying to find something that you know is being blackballed by SJW google can be helpful .