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Author urges users to abandon Google services for privacy

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The author advocates for a complete departure from Google services, citing the company's shift away from its ethical principles and its diminishing focus on core products like search. They suggest alternative, privacy-focused services for search, email, and mobile operating systems. The process of 'de-Googling' is presented as a long-term effort that yields significant benefits for user privacy and control. AI

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece advocating for a specific user behavior change regarding a tech company.

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Author urges users to abandon Google services for privacy

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    It becomes ever more important that you stop using Google. It's been important for a long time, since they removed 'don't be evil' from their tag-line and decid

    It becomes ever more important that you stop using Google. It's been important for a long time, since they removed 'don't be evil' from their tag-line and decided that they had to be a big evil corporation instead. They're giving up on being a search engine now too by the sounds …

    LINKS techcrunch.com/…/google-search-as-you-kno…

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