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moonalice.com • 11 days ago

Every single day, Google provides a new reason to never again use their products.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/google-calendar-black-history-pride-month?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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junglebay.bsky.social•11 days ago

I’ve personally noticed some strange happenings when using search
Example can anyone explain why I got this result last week ?
Please any recommendations on a decent search engine ?
Am using Grok some times it’s ok but I don’t trust anything musk

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shirleymeerson.bsky.social•11 days ago

A while back- a few years - I was trying out
DuckDuckGo
It was ok and I’m gonna give it another try.
https://duckduckgo.com

junglebay.bsky.social•11 days ago

Thank you Shirley
Will try it :0)

shirleymeerson.bsky.social•11 days ago

Most welcome

People are like cry babies -they won’t give up certain things ➡️ IMO make changes to align with your values - even small changes

Recently I deleted IG biz account - I was sad 😔 but I cannot support Meta involvement in oligarchy
I dumped FB years back ⤵️
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/08/myanmar-time-for-meta-to-pay-reparations-to-rohingya-for-role-in-ethnic-cleansing/

junglebay.bsky.social•11 days ago

Personally I’m holding on to FB but only because of it being the one EASY point of contact for friends and family
Other than that it’s become terrible now constantly on my feed is pro Trump MAGA and Musk content no matter how many times I block em they reappear in different forms

junglebay.bsky.social•11 days ago

I can’t get past the obvious signs that these people Zuk musk bozo and many new media outlets are going to be willing backers to an authoritarian Trump Musk regime in a similar fashion to what’s occurred with Hungary under Orban
So many people I know I see regurgitating maga mush memes so knollage

nuggetsfan1.bsky.social•11 days ago

Just deleted it from all my devices.

doshiajames.bsky.social•11 days ago

Private corporations will not save us. Public institutions cannot save us. Politicians can not save us. We can. But who’s in the streets? No one.

cristabel.bsky.social•11 days ago

Fuck. Google. They also kill small businesses (incl mine) in service to large competitors.

nefrodar.bsky.social•1 day ago

Give the app a 1 star rating. Do that for maps and earth too.

rosewood654.bsky.social•11 days ago

Dump Google for 👇👇

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solaranoir13.bsky.social•11 days ago

Disgusting!

wamx.bsky.social•10 days ago

Man, they are so far up Trump's ass, soon they'll see Hannity!

vanillarage.bsky.social•11 days ago

The 2006 film, Idiocracy was once a comedy—now it’s a documentary where a dystopian future America is ruled by stupidity. Experts are mocked, corporations rule, and debates feel like reality TV. A sports drink has replaced water for drinking and irrigation because of its electrolytes--worth a view.

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anxioudacity.bsky.social•11 days ago

Is there a good way to migrate a whole Gmail account to another service?

muraja.bsky.social•11 days ago

See https://proton.me

falkrehkopf.com•7 days ago

Not sure Proton is the way to go - https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

mdalves.bsky.social•7 days ago

https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

rachelwolf.bsky.social•11 days ago

Someone needs to build/launch a YouTube alternative NOW. I can use other search engines. I can switch my email accounts. But I need a video sharing alternative.

tubetone.bsky.social•11 days ago

There are many YT alternatives and have been for years. None are competitive.

Ideally I should generally be able to disassociate from business that is hostile to my values, social order, environment etc. In practice it's not realistic, and that sucks.

moonalice.com•11 days ago

💯 @rachelwolf.bsky.social

horse-girl.bsky.social•11 days ago

Boycott Google

veracitas.bsky.social•11 days ago

Is someone putting together a guide on how to reduce (or eliminate) their dependence on Google? I can start if there is interest.

pjpuckrr.bsky.social•1 day ago

I've been trying duckduckgo. Trying to get familiar with it.

veracitas.bsky.social•1 day ago

Definitely DuckDuckGo, but I'm also looking for alternatives to:
1) Google Maps - MapQuest
2) GMail - ?
3) Chrome - Brave
4) Google Photos - ?
5) Google Voice - port # to the carrier
6) YouTube - ?
7) YouTubeTV - SlingTV
8) Google Colab - ?

Any suggestions for those?

pjpuckrr.bsky.social•1 day ago

I guess it's time for entrepreneurs out there to stand up for what used to be my country

truexted.bsky.social•11 days ago

I'm pissed I use gmail...

thepublicpretender.bsky.social•11 days ago

If you zoom out though….yikes! I feel if i don’t report this i could be arrested for insubordination

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thepublicpretender.bsky.social•11 days ago

The King is solving all our problems

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trinamcmahan.bsky.social•11 days ago

What's truly appalling is there is no nuance or middle ground in any of this. Another reason to never use Google again is the Gulf of Mexico is now labeled Gulf of American on Google maps. Such stupid BS.

pjpuckrr.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well what about never nothing on Jewish holy days

zenfoolio.bsky.social•11 days ago

"maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn't scalable or sustainable."

Google can't scale?

r33ds.bsky.social•11 days ago

Peak Google is now behind us.

democracyxxxx.bsky.social•11 days ago

DEM PROJECT 2025 - LET'S GO DEMS!

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mwilbert.bsky.social•11 days ago

I never actually understood why they had so many random days on Calendar, but of course removing them now is craven.

rcable.bsky.social•11 days ago

What is wrong with them!!??

lyns84.bsky.social•11 days ago

One by one, corporations are capitulating the tRump’s gender and DEI orders, not just those owned by his original winged monkeys. It is a cultural war being fought and language is the weapon. Strange choice for a man who finds it difficult to string a sentence together.

easy65.bsky.social•10 days ago

Question: “hey Google what’s a prostitute?”
Answer: “I am”

fraser119.bsky.social•11 days ago

How much more shit can they make their products, for a business that’s always talking about usability and UX they really don’t have a clue - their products are horrendous.

ratcellar.bsky.social•11 days ago

During Black History Month, no less.

Couldn’t wait until March?

expatgirl.bsky.social•11 days ago

Thanks for posting - this is disgusting….changing calendar apps immediately - anyone have suggestions?

leeglick.bsky.social•11 days ago

“Do more evil”

smac42.bsky.social•11 days ago

Duck Duck go to search. Uninstall Google maps. Not sure how I get out of YouTube.

artski.bsky.social•11 days ago

Their main mission statement was "Do no harm." That's long gone.

dioxazinepurple.bsky.social•9 days ago

Worse: it was “Don’t be evil.” Now, they’re nothing but.

caligal28.bsky.social•11 days ago

Google is a little bitch. They love to follow. Nobody uses it anymore. I just go straight to ChatGPT for everything now.

shirleymeerson.bsky.social•11 days ago

😡 NASTY Business
and I sure as shit don’t mean sexy

patrickrogers.bsky.social•11 days ago

Every day Google provides a new reason for a second age of trust busting.

cbourne.bsky.social•11 days ago

Don’t tell me I have to stick with yahoo?

jotg83.bsky.social•11 days ago

Before we at least had an establishment slightly on our side. I wonder what a full 2vs1 is going to be like.

kengold1953.bsky.social•11 days ago

So much for “don’t be evil” promise in IPO Prospectus!

ballnjane.bsky.social•11 days ago

Ugh, what’s the recommended new email?

muraja.bsky.social•11 days ago

Protonmail or tutanota

suzannaregos.bsky.social•11 days ago

I never use their calendar or docs but still have gmail. I am on Firefox (love it), refuse to get Chrome, and use Duck Duck Go browser. You can get a DDG email address, it will forward to your regular email. I use it for online stuff and newsletters, and get wonderful notes like this.

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hmtimm.bsky.social•11 days ago

Time to start degoogling my digital archive.

protonxor.de•11 days ago

Wondering when they also delete the LGBTQ themes for Chrome... right now there still available:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/collection/lgbtq_themes

feedmehoney.bsky.social•10 days ago

If enough is of us switch from Google, maybe Google will become unsustainable.

Long live the Gulf of Mexico!

lgtrellis.bsky.social•11 days ago

Not to mention this winning decision

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spyntek.bsky.social•11 days ago

They have pledged ultimate fealty to Orange Cheeto Jesus. If I didn't have to rely on them for some services on my Galaxy S24, I would have ditched them a long time ago

territylerelli.bsky.social•11 days ago

Complying in advance. Cowards

b3d0u1n.bsky.social•11 days ago

👆late 90’s early 00’s SV idealism is dead

socalduck89.bsky.social•11 days ago

Another profile in courage.

dioxazinepurple.bsky.social•9 days ago

I want journalists to start using the word “appeasement” and posting stories about what happens when you do it.

aj5273.bsky.social•11 days ago

Google is a monopoly so this makes it hard. Like I can't not use google drive or google classroom. I don't know if there is an alternative maps app that isn't powered by google. I can't not watch youtube. I have had my gmail account for 15 years now and I can't let all my accounts linked to it go

mikewpavao.bsky.social•11 days ago

They also actually renamed the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps.