Thousands of Internet users try to unuse Google and all the services it offers. But that's without counting the level of power that has reached the giant Mountain View that occupies virtually every aspect of our daily lives.
Not all Internet users carry Google in their heart. It's not just the search engine that absorbs more than 90% of searches on the web, but Google as a company and subsidiary of Alphabet. There is even a special forum on Reddit (r / degoogle) whose members have only one goal: to share their experiences, but also alternative tools that would allow them to cut themselves completely from Google's services: the search engine , YouTube, Google Maps, Gmail, Chrome, Android, G Suite and many services offered indirectly by the firm. This will is almost impossible to achieve.
They declare war on Google but can not managing without it
For the Google community on Reddit, Google's power has become too terrifying. The forum was created in 2018 and now has nearly 7000 users. One of the moderators of the group told the Business Insider website and confirms that the purpose of the DeGooglers, as they call themselves, is to avoid using all Google services in their daily lives .
But the problem is that this promise is almost impossible to keep. In various discussions of the forum, we read interventions of people who can not see the end of the tunnel. For example, a user explains that he has replaced Gmail with Yahoo Mail, Google Chrome with the open source browser Pale Moon or the Google search engine with DuckDuckGo. But…
"Youtube is the only service I really could not live without. I always use Youtube (unfortunately, I also have a Google account for that).
Examples of this kind are numerous on this forum. Another discouraged surfer keeps a more positive tone: "sometimes we just have to do our best (...). Remember that all the actions we take are useful. It does not have to be all or nothing.
Nevertheless, some boast of having cut off Google, as the moderator interviewed by Business Insider. "My job does not require the use of Google ... I think I would be ready to find another job if it was."
One thing is certain, that one decides to flee Google does not really solve the problem unless you cut yourself completely from the Internet, to use no smartphone was it an Android model or an iPhone. It will also be necessary to deprive oneself of a PC or a Mac because in the end, one is always in one way or another dependent on the GAFAM or one of those companies that it urges to dismantle according to an American senator.
But the problem is that this promise is almost impossible to keep. In various discussions of the forum, we read interventions of people who can not see the end of the tunnel. For example, a user explains that he has replaced Gmail with Yahoo Mail, Google Chrome with the open source browser Pale Moon or the Google search engine with DuckDuckGo. But…
"Youtube is the only service I really could not live without. I always use Youtube (unfortunately, I also have a Google account for that).
Examples of this kind are numerous on this forum. Another discouraged surfer keeps a more positive tone: "sometimes we just have to do our best (...). Remember that all the actions we take are useful. It does not have to be all or nothing.
Nevertheless, some boast of having cut off Google, as the moderator interviewed by Business Insider. "My job does not require the use of Google ... I think I would be ready to find another job if it was."
One thing is certain, that one decides to flee Google does not really solve the problem unless you cut yourself completely from the Internet, to use no smartphone was it an Android model or an iPhone. It will also be necessary to deprive oneself of a PC or a Mac because in the end, one is always in one way or another dependent on the GAFAM or one of those companies that it urges to dismantle according to an American senator.
