#antigoogle

so we all know google been Getting Too Big For Their Fucking Britches for a while now-- personally idc if a company sells my data to give more personalized ads, so that one didnt trip me up. what did trip me up was google manipulating search results to create echo chambers for users, and running large-scale psychological experiments to change users' behaviors without their knowledge or consent (I'm sick so i only found one link, but the company admitted it so there'll be more if u look it up)

so I'm switching! but the two biggest roadblocks to get me out of my google fleshmeld (i use p much all of google's services daily ^u^") were 1. the Research to find good alternatives, and 2. switching over all my email accounts

If ur like me, and you want to switch but are having a hard time carving out time to do the research, i have done it for you!

so, without further ado, here are my recs for google service alternatives!

(I have only included alts that have good privacy protection, clean/friendly interfaces, and the ability to be used on desktop or mobile)

Docs/Sheets/Keep/Drive -> paper by dropbox! (such a nice interface, although I'm still testing this out for myself)

Gmail -> mail.com! (you can pick your own domain name!!!! ie example@/cutey/catlover/accountant/email/clubmember/coolsite.com)

Maps -> OsmAnd (i haven't tried it yet, but it looks like a good one)

Translate -> DeepL

Chrome Browser(desktop) -> Mozilla Firefox

Chrome Browser(mobile) -> duckduckgo (so smooth and clean)

Chrome search(mobile or browser ext) -> swisscows

feel free to add more, if u know them!

and please remember to hold companies accountable for their bullshit. Google is big, but we got alternatives to almost every one of their services, and pulling away is not impossible. It took me 90 minutes to switch over every email account I have.

Prompts by @huffletrax

Prompt: Bells

Idk I kind of bullshitted this one. Trigger warnings for robogore

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“Oh, I didn’t know you could make that sound.” Anti’s rasping purr grated on his auditory receptors, but Blue did not give him the satisfaction of a cringe. Every circuit was on fire, and his vision was beginning to blur as his battery percentage ticked closer and closer to zero. To shutdown. “It sounds like a bell.”

    He touched the tip of his knife to the side of Blue’s face, as if preparing to strip yet another swathe of synthetic skin from his jawline, revealing whirring pistons and rotating gears; hundreds of parts to make up the whole. “Tell me what it means.”

    “L-LoooOO-OOw ba-a-aAAattery,” Blue slurred, still managing to bite out the words as if they were poison. As if he could spit them at Anti and experience the human-like glee at watching his skin burn with acid.

    Anti cackled, and Blue’s processor fritzed. When he came back to himself Anti’s face was close to his. Close enough to kiss.

    “Make that sound again.”

    The knife. Glinting in the dim light. 

    Blue shook his head. Did he like denying Anti his whims? Or could he truly not replicate the noise? Impossible to tell.

ANTIGOOGLE ANTIGOOGLE

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Prompt: “Bite me.”

    Trapped. Like a human in its skin, Blue found himself trapped within his mechanical frame, unable to control his own limbs or access the rapid flow of data usually available. 

    He slammed his fists against the barrier that confined him to his own mind, but despite his android strength he really only succeeded in bouncing off it, sending crackling green energy rippling out in all directions.

    “Ha ha ha!” Blue spun as Anti appeared behind him, one eye glowing a brilliant neon as he regarded the android’s self-conscious manifest with nothing less than utter triumph. 

    “You’re mine, now,” he crowed, voice ringing around the empty black. “I’ve got complete control of all your systems. They’re at my every whim.”

    Blue sneered at him. “Enjoy it while it lasts. My automatic shutdown will soon engage, and you will be ejected like the malfunction you are.”

    But Anti only laughed. “Take whatever solace you can from that belief, but I’ll be riding you until Dark sticks a hand through your chest.”

    Blue leaned forward, eyes flashing as blue as Anti’s was green. “Bite me,” he snarled.

Ask.com anti-Google campaign on the London tube

Ask.com anti-Google campaign on the London tube

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Search engine Ask.com buys advertising on public transport to protest against people choosing to use Google for internet searching. The danger with campaigns like this is that gullible politicians start backing it and call for regulation. Read more and participate in the discussion on SearchMob.

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