I’m in agreement of Google’s brief; however, Google has a history of surveillance and privacy violations; so I’m suspicious of their actions.
I think Google is trying to pull off a false flag operation.
I’m in agreement of Google’s brief; however, Google has a history of surveillance and privacy violations; so I’m suspicious of their actions.
I think Google is trying to pull off a false flag operation.
Agree, but there are no alternatives to ALL Google services (f.Exmpl SreetView, in YouTube you can use one of the front-ends, but there are no good alternatives to YT itself, GoogleEdu, and some more with no or only worse alternatives) Google isn’t only the search engine, even if you use another one, it’s not so easy to avoid Google if you go online. The most pages you visit are depending direct or indirect on Google influences, even probably your ISP itself, DNS server, SEO Tools they use, adding the colaboration with some goverments and a looong etc. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
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The best I think is Piped, but yes, it’s not so easy to replace YT. Piped does a great work because it use a own system without the googlevideo.API or forking Invidious. This permits to view YT vids even the restricted ones and even is capable to cut out sponsor blocks and intros (I don’t know how can do this). But lacks some other features and sometimes the streaming isn’t very fluid. The best is to use YT and cut out all Google crap, there are enough good browser extensions to do this.
Youtube is the only google service I find it difficult to replace. All others have viable alternatives, even Google Play Services. Hopefully Odysee or something similar takes off.
Strange people, flatearthers an conspiranoics in Odysee, not really a good alternative, I prefer to use one of the Front-ends (Piped, CloudTube, YewTube, FreeTube, etc), Google Streetview don’t has a alternative, nor Google Art project, Google Scolar and a lot of others has really good alternatives. I can avoid these services, because I dont need these, but a lot of people can’t, most studiants an profesionals.