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Escaping Google's Grasp: Tools for the Privacy-Minded | Chaos Lever
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If your Gmail inbox is older than your adult children and you're just now wondering if it's been reading your diary all along—congrats, this episode is for you! In part two of our “Living Life Without Being Poisoned by FAANG” series, we deep-dive into the world's most insidious search bar: Google. From ads masquerading as results to docs that double as AI training material, we unpack how the advertising company formerly known as a search engine became the shady overlord of your digital life.
We also take a good, long look at alternatives. Not just “use Bing” (come on now), but actual viable swaps like Kagi, StartPage, and DuckDuckGo. Need to break free from Gmail? Hello, Proton Mail. Curious about workspace alternatives that don’t hand your docs to Big Brother? Meet CryptPad. And for the content creators out there, we give the rundown on Nebula, PeerTube, and other non-Google places you can still host your rants and videos without being part of the algorithm’s human farm.
Then we shift gears to cloud services. We walk through smaller, boutique hosting options—from Linode to Fly.io to EU-based Scaleway—that won't charge you an arm and a leg. If you’ve ever wanted to ditch Big Tech but didn’t know where to start, grab your tinfoil hat (or at least a solar panel) and let’s talk freedom, baby.
👇 LINKS
Google reads all your stuff: https://policies.google.com/privacy/archive/20221215-20230701
Kagi is pretty great: https://www.theverge.com/web/631636/kagi-review-best-search-engine
Cryptpad looks like Office: https://cryptpad.org/
Photopea, like Zootopia: https://www.photopea.com
Hetzner auctions server costs: https://www.hetzner.com/sb/
Alexander Samsig did a breakdown of EU CSPs: https://asamsig.com/blog/picking-a-european-cloud-provider
249 episodes
Manage episode 478792520 series 3378962
If your Gmail inbox is older than your adult children and you're just now wondering if it's been reading your diary all along—congrats, this episode is for you! In part two of our “Living Life Without Being Poisoned by FAANG” series, we deep-dive into the world's most insidious search bar: Google. From ads masquerading as results to docs that double as AI training material, we unpack how the advertising company formerly known as a search engine became the shady overlord of your digital life.
We also take a good, long look at alternatives. Not just “use Bing” (come on now), but actual viable swaps like Kagi, StartPage, and DuckDuckGo. Need to break free from Gmail? Hello, Proton Mail. Curious about workspace alternatives that don’t hand your docs to Big Brother? Meet CryptPad. And for the content creators out there, we give the rundown on Nebula, PeerTube, and other non-Google places you can still host your rants and videos without being part of the algorithm’s human farm.
Then we shift gears to cloud services. We walk through smaller, boutique hosting options—from Linode to Fly.io to EU-based Scaleway—that won't charge you an arm and a leg. If you’ve ever wanted to ditch Big Tech but didn’t know where to start, grab your tinfoil hat (or at least a solar panel) and let’s talk freedom, baby.
👇 LINKS
Google reads all your stuff: https://policies.google.com/privacy/archive/20221215-20230701
Kagi is pretty great: https://www.theverge.com/web/631636/kagi-review-best-search-engine
Cryptpad looks like Office: https://cryptpad.org/
Photopea, like Zootopia: https://www.photopea.com
Hetzner auctions server costs: https://www.hetzner.com/sb/
Alexander Samsig did a breakdown of EU CSPs: https://asamsig.com/blog/picking-a-european-cloud-provider
249 episodes
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