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Google is Evil


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2015 Jul 7, 1:54pm   77,506 views  482 comments

by Patrick   ➕follow (61)   💰tip   ignore  

Goddamn it, i want to keep google out of my life entirely, but now my employer uses gmail, so have to use it, and my employer put my first and last name on it: first.last@mycompany.com

To view my work calendar on my phone i have to add that account, so google knows my phone now too.

Even viewing a youtube video at work i noticed that they have me logged in to youtube (which google owns). if i log out, i can't read my email...

Google is the worst thing ever to happen to privacy.


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67   Eric Holder   2020 Nov 9, 9:23pm  

richwicks says
Eric Holder says
richwicks says
www.duckduck.go (wrapper for google...


Is it really?


I think it is.

I believe it started out as a wrapper for a GROUP of search engines. Used to be pretty lousy but it's improved beyond the point of google. Google will actually remove sites entirely now.


Two years ago their CEO was saying they don't:

68   Eric Holder   2020 Nov 9, 9:24pm  

Found another non-google search engine: https://www.yippy.com/
69   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2020 Nov 9, 9:26pm  

I used to like dogpile:

https://www.dogpile.com/

Also http://metasearch.com/ which pre-google searched other engines and collated.
70   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Nov 10, 4:06pm  

Nice Youtube replacement: www.rumble.com
71   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2020 Nov 10, 4:22pm  

NoCoupForYou says
Nice Youtube replacement: www.rumble.com


how does it compare to bitchute?
72   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Nov 10, 4:27pm  

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says
how does it compare to bitchute?





Less bigfoot/illuminati/The Greys are working with the Jewish Jesuits to keep gold prices down crap. Pretty much Movie/TV Reviews and conservative vloggers.
73   Onvacation   2020 Nov 10, 4:28pm  

I quit YouTube last night. I couldn't stand it any longer.

I've had a bitchute account for a while but haven't used it because it was glitchy. I went on last night and there was all of the insanity YouTube used to be. Watched a couple old favorite characters. I have to go find the rest of my favorite old characters. They had disappeared off of YouTube lately.
74   Onvacation   2020 Nov 10, 4:29pm  

NoCoupForYou says
FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says
how does it compare to bitchute?




Less bigfoot/illuminati crap.

I'm going to have to give it a try. Can you share some links to some good channels/ commentators?
75   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Nov 10, 4:29pm  

That being said, I love Cranks of the old "UFOs are Real" documentary type.
76   theoakman   2020 Nov 10, 5:11pm  

For the past 3 years, I've been reminiscing about how amazing the internet was 20 years ago. It's devolved into a pile of stupid social media videos/posts, fabricated media stories, and orwelian overlords deleting and censoring free discourse. Meanwhile, there clearly was a coordinated effort to reduce discourse by nearly every media site "temporarily suspending" or eliminating comments going into this election.
77   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Nov 10, 5:12pm  

Everything gets wrecked when Regular Males aren't in charge.

I keep hoping for Freenet or some alternative to the entire damn thing, that requires a good half hour for a well intentioned lay man to connect to, and the process is deliberately changed every few months so dumbasses and chicks can't get a cut and past on how to do it like myspace themes

Somehow make it ass backwards to connect so it's not a matter of just connecting to WiFi.
78   Patrick   2020 Nov 10, 6:01pm  

just_passing_through says
"best tits" results are waaay better on yandex!


This is true. Personally tested.

Yandex does make requests to a zillion different sites when you load those images, far more than Duckduckgo, but maybe it's not nefarious.
79   Patrick   2020 Nov 10, 6:06pm  

NoCoupForYou says
I keep hoping for Freenet or some alternative to the entire damn thing


Maybe I should put some time into my idea of just having an sftp proxy locally.

Your browser would connect to that, and that would use your ssh key to connect to someone's server and sftp the content down to you.

Thing is, it would still require people issue a set of arcane commands in a terminal to get set up.
80   Patrick   2020 Nov 10, 6:40pm  

NoCoupForYou says
Nice Youtube replacement: www.rumble.com


Thanks! This looks good too.

Does not demand that I let them track me with cookies or localstorage in order to work. Sadly, Bitchute does.
81   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2020 Nov 10, 7:33pm  

I just tried the rumble app on my roku. It sucks. I can't even read the black text on a white background.

Hopefully they improve it. I just started clicking on videos but I didn't know what they were about necessarily. Also, no timestamps so I couldn't tell if it was some old vid.

So far getting bitchute onto the roku apparently requires some surgery. I plan to try that soon.
82   richwicks   2020 Nov 10, 8:27pm  

Onvacation says
NoCoupForYou says
FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says
how does it compare to bitchute?





Less bigfoot/illuminati crap.

I'm going to have to give it a try. Can you share some links to some good channels/ commentators?


I'd like to also suggest https://www.brandnewtube.com as well.

Put 5 different sites together and you have the youtube you liked and wanted, but "youtube" now is just corporate propaganda and a few people not giving up on the shitty site.

I made a script that I used to download all youtube videos I watched that I wanted to review later. It's interesting as hell to see what has been censored - got a script for that as well. I'll eventually take everything that's been removed (for whatever reason), and make a torrent. You get a list of what has been censored and the most interesting thing to see is what your overlords don't want you to see.
83   theoakman   2020 Nov 10, 8:31pm  

Do we just need to go back to dial up BBS to find free discourse?
85   SunnyvaleCA   2020 Nov 10, 10:06pm  

I started using Bing instead of Google for my searches from desktop computer. I suppose it's not as good, but it works fine generally. I love the pretty picture-of-the-day!

More recently I switched my low-security from Chrome to Edge (Microsoft's new browser). Edge has been great generally. It appears to be a very close ripoff of Chrome, which isn't much surprise as much of the underlying technology is the same.

There's just one minor problem now... AdBlock and Ghostry are thwarted by Edge when Edge is pointed at the Bing search page! Ha. So Bing from Chrome is pretty good, but Bing from Edge is somewhat annoying. Oh well. It's a small price to pay.

Hillariously, up until a few years ago I liked to boast that I had been "Microsoft free since 2002!" Now I'm actually switching TO Microsoft because it's by far the lesser evil.
86   Patrick   2020 Nov 12, 9:12am  

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an84b/six-reasons-why-google-maps-is-the-creepiest-app-on-your-phone

Six Reasons Why Google Maps Is the Creepiest App On Your Phone
Google knows where you are, and so do advertisers.

Google Maps Wants Your Search History
Google Maps Limits Its Features If You Don’t Share Your Search History
Google Maps Can Snitch On You
Google Maps Wants to Know Your Habits
Google Maps Doesn’t Like It When You’re Offline
Google Makes It Seem Like This Is All for Your Own Good
87   SunnyvaleCA   2020 Nov 12, 10:19am  

Patrick says
Six Reasons Why Google Maps Is the Creepiest App On Your Phone
Fortunately, if you have an iPhone, Apple Maps has been steadily getting better. That might not be saying much, given its rocky start, but it really is pretty good most of the time now. If you're not using an iPhone, then your entire phone operating system and all the built in apps are thoroughly compromised. And I don't think some sort of knock-off Chinese OS is going to be your saviour!
88   zzyzzx   2020 Nov 12, 11:03am  

Google just disable their music app and now looking to force everyone to use YouTube music. So I disabled it and found something else that doesn't do ads or require any permissions that it actually needs.
89   Patrick   2020 Nov 12, 5:15pm  

SunnyvaleCA says
Hillariously, up until a few years ago I liked to boast that I had been "Microsoft free since 2002!" Now I'm actually switching TO Microsoft because it's by far the lesser evil.



Exactly. I feel the same way. Microsoft hit some limit of monopoly power, probably when it just became too obvious even for our own DOJ to ignore.

Somehow, they still haven't caught up with Google, and probably for the same reasons: government likes the power to spy on us and block content that Microsoft and Google give them. They probably like it even more when they spy on foreigners.
90   Patrick   2020 Nov 12, 5:17pm  

richwicks says
https://www.brandnewtube.com


I like it, but it refuses to run without cookies and localstorage turned on so that they can track you.
91   Patrick   2020 Nov 12, 10:19pm  

Another search engine alternative to Google, this one based in France:

https://www.qwant.com/?q=dominion%20voting%20systems&t=all
92   HeadSet   2020 Nov 13, 5:45am  

Patrick says
Another search engine alternative to Google, this one based in France:

https://www.qwant.com/?q=dominion%20voting%20systems&t=all



Patrick, if you click that link it takes you to a list of propaganda about how great Dominion voting machines are, and how everyone is lying about them.
93   zzyzzx   2020 Nov 13, 6:51am  

Fuck Google maps. Standalone GPS for the win.
94   Patrick   2020 Nov 13, 8:41am  

HeadSet says
Patrick says
Another search engine alternative to Google, this one based in France:

https://www.qwant.com/?q=dominion%20voting%20systems&t=all



Patrick, if you click that link it takes you to a list of propaganda about how great Dominion voting machines are, and how everyone is lying about them.


True. Maybe that's part of its mission, to promote MSM distortion.
95   richwicks   2020 Nov 13, 12:03pm  

Patrick says
richwicks says
https://www.brandnewtube.com


I like it, but it refuses to run without cookies and localstorage turned on so that they can track you.


Just open up a web browser in incognito mode. When you close it, all cookies and localstorage are gone.
96   Patrick   2020 Nov 13, 12:20pm  

OK, it's a little more work, but worth it.

Thanks.
97   Patrick   2020 Nov 23, 5:57pm  

https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-censorship-candace-owens-men-women-podcast/

Political commentator Candace Owens accused YouTube of being “batshit woke” after it removed her podcast about gender identity. It is not clear why YouTube suddenly found the video offensive after being on the platform for a year.

On Friday, Owens tweeted that YouTube had removed her video because she said “men are not women and women are not men.” According to her remarks in the video are not so-called “hate speech” but the truth.
98   porkchopXpress   2020 Nov 23, 9:55pm  

I use Earthlink search and AOL maps.
103   WookieMan   2020 Nov 27, 3:56am  

NoCoupForYou says

Oh please. Jesus. If somehow Europeans could not make it over here till now, Native Americans would still be living like they did in the 1500's. I don't doubt that at all.

I personally don't know any Native Americans, but they were sooooooooo damn primitive when we arrived. Even the communities they have now are generally sketchville. I'm sure most are nice people if you got to know them. They just don't seem very intelligent. Harsh opinion, but I don't think it's far from the truth.
104   HeadSet   2020 Nov 27, 7:02am  

I personally don't know any Native Americans, but they were sooooooooo damn primitive when we arrived.

True, they were a stone age people but they did give us corn, tomatoes, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. Now imagine Italian food without tomatoes or Russia Vodka made without potatoes. Also imagine no cigars, chewing tobacco, cigarettes, or Prince Albert in a can.
105   Bd6r   2020 Nov 27, 7:14am  

I do know a few American Indians, and they are not into this bullshit. This bullshit is libruls. Just like American Indians actually like that sports teams are named redskins, Chiefs, and so on...
https://www.thewrap.com/washington-redskins-nfl-football-90-percent-native-americans-are-not-offended/

NoCoupForYou says

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