I’ve used Chrome since the beginning and moved from Firefox. I’ve been happy. I’d still be happy but now I’m back on Firefox because of Google’s intentions. It’s led me to start to move away from Google as a whole. Moved my emails and search to DuckDuckGo.
It’s going to be hard to move away from other services. Maps and YouTube for example.
i used to write reviews for restaurants on goog many years ago.
recently i’ve gotten mails from google, saying they had been contacted by restaurants who claim they don’t know me and my review is fraudulent. google wants me to prove i had been there (7 years ago, paid cash) or they’ll delete the review.
so all my reviews are gone, as well as any trust in that content. google reviews are garbage.
I’ve used Chrome since the beginning and moved from Firefox. I’ve been happy. I’d still be happy but now I’m back on Firefox because of Google’s intentions. It’s led me to start to move away from Google as a whole. Moved my emails and search to DuckDuckGo.
It’s going to be hard to move away from other services. Maps and YouTube for example.
It is hard to move away from maps completely but for pure navigation there are many alternatives. From the FOSS world, there are 2 I would recommend.
Organic Maps - fairly clean and focused app mainly around navigation
OsmAnd~ - a more fleshed out map app. Easily see hiking routes, ski routes, etc. This is the one I am trying to use at the moment.
Still doesn’t help solve the google review for restraunts and shops etc, but it is a step in the right direction.
i used to write reviews for restaurants on goog many years ago. recently i’ve gotten mails from google, saying they had been contacted by restaurants who claim they don’t know me and my review is fraudulent. google wants me to prove i had been there (7 years ago, paid cash) or they’ll delete the review. so all my reviews are gone, as well as any trust in that content. google reviews are garbage.
Is there an alternative you can recommend that you feel is more honest?
DDG isn’t the paragon of privacy. Try Qwant or StartPage.