DeGoogle Yourself

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What's the main reason you're degoogling? (lazysoci.al)

submitted 2 days ago by CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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I'm new to this idea and a Google girl so I'm interested in learning more. I'm not good with tech, but if it's necessary I'll do it as much as I can.

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[–] saimen@feddit.org 2 points 23 hours ago

For me it always felt a bit weird to give google all this data about me, but it was so convenient and their services often are very good and definitely user friendly. So I always told myself, what's the worst they can do? They are a corporation and they would only hurt themselves if they used their data against their users. And anyway they are US based. The USA are the biggest and oldest democracy which wouldn't allow evil forces to gain power.

Yeah, that was that.