@rob
"OK - I understand that you carefully went through life and de-Googled, ponied up all your money for Proton, run Arch Linux, etc. etc."

Didn't really #deGoogle my life. I use a #Samsung device with the default OS on it, so...
I don't pay for #Proton
FYI, #Linux is not bad at all.

#Don't believe I'm like the ones on #PrivacyGuides and the likes. No, I try (and often find) a balance between #privacy, #security and #usability.
I am not that kind of extreme guy who doesn't even want to hear about #GoogleCrap, #MicrosoftCrap, #MetaCrap and the others.

@rob
OK then...
From #Tuta:
https://tuta.com/blog/what-does-google-know-about-me
https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-google-gmail
https://tuta.com/blog/big-tech-privacy-washing
https://tuta.com/blog/google-facebook-free
https://tuta.com/blog/google-gemini-ai-email

From #ProtonAG:
https://proton.me/blog/how-to-de-google

From #DIgitalTrends:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-chrome-incognito-mode-tracking/
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-tracks-your-location-even-with-location-history-turned-off/

From #Forbes:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/03/20/stop-using-google-chrome-on-apple-iphone-12-pro-max-ipad-and-macbook-pro/?sh=aff525e4d084
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2023/09/07/new-google-chrome-targeted-ad-tracking-heres-how-to-stop-it/?sh=6ec18f2429fa

From #npr:
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1242019127/google-incognito-mode-settlement-search-history

From #PCGamer:
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-2023-study-concluded-captchas-are-a-tracking-cookie-farm-for-profit-masquerading-as-a-security-service-that-made-us-spend-819-billion-hours-clicking-on-traffic-lights-to-generate-nearly-usd1-trillion-for-google/

From #APNews:
https://apnews.com/article/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb

From #BraveBrowser:
https://brave.com/compare/google-vs-brave-search/#:~:text=Google%20is%20built%20for%20tracking.

From #VivaldiBrowser:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/meeting-gabriel-weinberg/
https://vivaldi.com/blog/google-return-to-not-being-evil/

From #MacRumors:
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/01/05/google-pays-apple-stay-out-of-search/

And this image from #Tuta too.

P.S. IMO, #Tuta's are the best!

#privacy #privacyMatters #DataPrivacy #Google #GoogleMaps #GoogleSearch #GoogleAI #Gmail #GoogleCrap #tracking #DataBreach #DataCollection #dataHarvesting #VivaldiBrowser

@Tutanota
#VivaldiBrowser Has a good #privacypolicy, is #European, and is 95% #FOSS. It removes the #googlecrap from the #Chromium code before using it in their #browser
Also, it lets adding blocking sources and tweaking them, which is a must-have since their ad blocking is no the greatest, THB.

It has an overall good balance between privacy and functionality, and this is why I believe it should be added in the list.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-different-from-chrome/

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/#:~:text=Note%20that%2C%20of%20the%20three%20layers%20above%2C%20only%20the%20UI%20layer%20is%20closed%2Dsource.%20Roughly%2092%25%20of%20the%20browser%E2%80%99s%20code%20is%20open%20source%20coming%20from%20Chromium%2C%203%25%20is%20open%20source%20coming%20from%20us%2C%20which%20leaves%20only%205%25%20for%20our%20UI%20closed%2Dsource%20code.

@andreas_heitmann @tdr
That's real!

One more thing: #VivaldiBrowser 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 #Googlecrap 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 #Chromuim 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 #browser!