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<h1>Degoogle</h1> |
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In the modern capitalist landscape, there are few peaceful things you can do to detach yourself from |
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capitalism in general. Alienation from the product of your labour is inescapable; it is experienced by |
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almost every worker under capitalism. The majority of workers are forced to work month-month, |
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paycheck-paycheck. Most working class academics have to take out ridiculous amounts of student debt. You |
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are required to take on car payments if you live far away from your workplace. Most workers work jobs |
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that they hate or don't like, and the only thing that keeps them sane is their coworkers. |
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Few things can be done to detach from capitalism. |
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Google is a mega-corp that tracks all of your location data, all of your Youtube watch-history, all of |
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your search queries, everything you say to your Google Home device; Google tracks almost every aspect of |
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your life, without you even knowing. Google profits greatly from their data-centers full of information |
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about you by selling your data to advertisers. Google probably owns your phones operating system and a |
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lot of the apps in there. Google is an awful, privacy unconscious capitalist entity, and you should |
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advocate for its destruction on every level. |
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If it's difficult to <em>not</em> have a Google account, that's probably a sign that you should run, and |
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run as fast as you can. |
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When we talk about de-googling, we not only talk about it in terms of you personally deleting all of |
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your Google services (although that would be a great start), we talk about it in terms of the greater |
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material conditions we're living in; in others words: we're talking about telling small and large |
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companies to stop using Google in their own services. A de-google movement has recently been created |
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called 'ReverseEagle', who's goal is to reach out to open-source projects and ask them politely, via |
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emails and git pull-requests, to stop using Google. I will place links to where you can find |
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ReverseEagle on <a href="https://dev.lemmy.ml/">Lemmy</a> and <a href="https://matrix.org/">Matrix</a>, |
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two great open-source alternatives to Reddit and Discord respectively. |
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<h2>So how can you personally do your part?</h2> |
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A good start would be to begin using <a href="https://invidio.us/">Invidious</a> as your YouTube video |
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viewing platform; Invidious has every YouTube video available over there, you just take a youtube link, |
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delete <b>youtube.com</b> and replace it with <b>invidio.us</b>. You can use a Firefox extension called |
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<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/">Redirector</a> to setup a redirect |
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so that any youtube video will redirect to its Invidious counterpart. I will place an image below this |
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paragraph to show you how to set this up. In addition to using Invidious, you can use <a |
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href="https://searx.info/">SearX</a> to replace Google! SearX takes a multitude of search engines |
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and compiles them into one list, it even can show Google search results. The advantage of using SearX is |
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that it tries to remove any ads and trackers from the results. In fact, this is also what Invidious |
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does. Another advantage of SearX is that you can host your own instance on a VPS or home server. |
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If you've done all that, ensure to replace your email with something like <a |
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href="https://www.tutanota.com/">Tutanota</a> or <a href="https://protonmail.com/">Protonmail</a>. |
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Personally I use Protonmail, and I like it even more than I did Gmail. |
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An important step would be to join ReverseEagle and join the movement to remove Google from open source. |
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Help us push for change, and make open-source a better, more private, safer place for all of us. I will |
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post links to all of the relevant resources down below. |
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<li>Join the ReverseEagle lemmy over at <a |
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href="https://dev.lemmy.ml/c/reverseeagle">https://dev.lemmy.ml/c/reverseeagle</a>.</li> |
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<li>Join our Matrix instance. If you don't yet have a Matrix account, head over to <a |
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href="https://riot.im/">Riot.im</a> to create an account and to download a sexy, E2EE matrix |
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client. Once you've done that, join our <a |
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href="https://matrix.to/#/!TDiDZaaFzkUSHRWcxQ:chat.endl.site?via=chat.endl.site&via=matrix.org">ReverseEagle</a> |
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Matrix instance!</li> |
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<li>Check out the <a href="https://pages.codeberg.org/ReverseEagle/">Codeberg pages site for |
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ReverseEagle</a>.</li> |
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