BlueSky Post.
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If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.
old guy takes long hit on the bong
“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”
Haven’t used Google in months and haven’t felt any loss in my quality of life. Protonmail and DuckDuckGo, easy peasy
The one Google product that I still use is Google maps. Openstreetmaps just isn't as good in my area and only Google maps, Waze, and Apple maps have accurate traffic data here.
I can't stop using that and Google photos. Instant backup of all photos, and more importantly, great search. It even recognizes my two dogs.
It's not really any better than Google on the "supporting large companies" front, but I've found OneDrive to be plenty sufficient for the Google photos use case. It isn't as slick, I'll admit, but I'm still happy with it as a replacement for big G products.