Google AMP - A 70% drop in our conversion rate ( medium.com )
Universal Android Debloater ( gitlab.com )
The main goal is to improve battery performance and privacy by removing unnecessary and obscure system apps. This can also contribute to improve security by reducing the attack surface. The script has a menu that lets you choose what debloat list you want to use. I strongly encourage you to take a look at the lists because the...
A look at search engines with their own indexes ( seirdy.one )
Most “alternative” search engines to the big three (Google, Bing, Yandex aka GBY) just proxy their results from GBY. I took a look at 30 non-meta search engines with their own crawlers/indexers to find actual alternatives....
Donate to microG ( liberapay.com )
If you use microG, consider donating to support its development....
Monash University research finds Bing and Ecosia delivered substantially more professionally produced news in the top 50 results compared with Google ( www.theguardian.com )
The director of the Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Associate Professor David Holmes, said the results demonstrated the importance of news media to search engines, with the top search terms clearly reflecting that people were trying to learn more about current affairs topics. “It is in the interests of search...
Google and Facebook reportedly agreed to help each other against potential antitrust action ( www.cnbc.com )
The Wall Street Journal reported that Google and Facebook pledged to help one another if they ever faced an investigation into their pact to work together in online advertising....
Could Google's Fuchsia operating system eventually pose a threat to Linux?
Google seems to be putting a lot of resources into their new Fuchsia OS, which though open source, is still completely managed by Google. It also has the drawback of not being under copyleft licenses like GPL, which means other companies can just take it and make proprietary forks....
adventures in de-googling ( www.wavebeem.com )
My problem switching off of gmail is that I’d really like to start moving to an alias-based approach (so, you know, [email protected] for Lemmy emails, etc.) but this then conflates two issues so I solve neither....
How to Leave Google Photos ( robbie.antenesse.net )
I wrote this comprehensive guide about how to handle Google Takeout in order to export your Google Photos before Google’s free high quality photo storage goes away next year and how to subsequently make your export usable. It’s intended for all audiences, but the overall message skews toward de-googling....
Opinion: On Google's ReCAPTCHA Privacy Nightmare ( hfet.org )
Really Google? A 'Bug'? 🤔🤔 ( hfet.org )
Google Nest hacker finds evidence of Google considering getting rid of 'Hey Google' hot words ( techxplore.com )
Google faces class action in Canada alleging it turns Canadians' electronics into tracking devices without their consent. ( www.newswire.ca )
Cutting Google out of your life | Alternative Resources Page ( degoogle.jmoore.dev )
Qwant search engine ( www.hackingthehike.com )
Qwant promises to be privacy friendly. Seems like a good alternative to Google and DuckDuckGo.
