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At this point, boycotting Google is a bit of a David vs. Goliath battle, but for anyone mad about the James Damore firing, here are some helpful tips. First off, the assumption that Google has a monopoly on its services is itself a product of Google’s clout. The truth is: they don’t.  

1. Browser: “Brave” 

So chances are you’re probably using Google Chrome. Given what Google did to Damore, regardless of your stance on his actual firing, we can’t expect Google to be staunch defenders of “free speech” and “privacy rights.” So if you want to avoid that, start using the Brave browser. 

Brave was started by Brendan Eich, the “proto-Damore,” if you will. Eich was forced from his job as the CEO of Mozilla for donating against anti-gay marriage and runs the Brave project now. Unlike Chrome, Brave allows for anonymous browsing and also deprives Google of your service. 

Here’s the download link: https://brave.com/download/

Brave works great on computers, but it crashes a lot on mobile. Just use another browser, anything but Chrome. 

2. Search Engine: “Qwant” 

So if Chrome weren’t bad enough, Google also tracks and manipulates your search results. Just the Facebook Fake News scandal, Google is also suppressing search results. Try googling “American mathematicians” or “American scientists” if you think that Google is an “unbiased free market participant.” In reality, Google has a lot to gain from their cronyist relationship with the Democratic Party. 

Qwant is a search engine that provides all the functionality of Google, without any of the hassle. 

https://www.qwant.com/

3: Email: “Protonmail” 

So with email you have a lot of options, but Protonmail is probably your best bet. We can’t trust gmail with our email information and thankfully Protonmail exists. Protonmail is fully encrypted, preventing any people from trying to manipulate your email activity (which can include subscriptions to right wing or politically incorrect websites) and is based in Switzerland. You have a 500MB storage limit if you don’t pay for a premium account, but it’s better than surrendering your data to google. 

https://protonmail.com/

4: Entertainment “Soundcloud,” “Spotify” 

So if there’s one part of Google that it does have a certifiable “monopoly” over, it’d probably be YouTube. You can find most major music on Spotify though, which is independent for the time being. For smaller artists, it’s very likely that they use Soundcloud. 

5: Messaging- Telegram 

1. Replace Google Chrome with Brave: https://brave.com/download/

2. Replace Google search engine with Qwant: https://www.qwant.com/

3. Replace Gmail with Protonmail: https://protonmail.com/

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This is a photo of a young child in Sudan starving to death. The photographer, Kevin Carter, was told not to touch or assist children for fear of transmitting diseases. As Kevin prepared to take the photo, a vulture landed behind the girl. Careful to not disturb the bird, he approached the scene very slowly and took a few photos from roughly 10 meters before chasing the vulture away. What Kevin didn’t know was that he had just shot one of the most controversial photographs in the history of photojournalism. Kevin was faced with many questions about whether the girl had survived and why he did not help her and only used her to take a photograph. It became known that the girl mustered enough strength to walk away but her ultimate fate is a mystery. His photo won the Pulitzer prize in 1994 and Kevin committed suicide three months later, leaving the following note behind: