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If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.
old guy takes long hit on the bong
“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”
Haven’t used Google in months and haven’t felt any loss in my quality of life. Protonmail and DuckDuckGo, easy peasy
The one Google product that I still use is Google maps. Openstreetmaps just isn’t as good in my area and only Google maps, Waze, and Apple maps have accurate traffic data here.
Also for the uninformed Google owns Waze.
I can’t stop using that and Google photos. Instant backup of all photos, and more importantly, great search. It even recognizes my two dogs.
I’m working on improving Open Street Maps wherever I can, but I’m only one person. Every few weeks or so I’ll login and add or fix something. Slowly but surely!
While live traffic might be a hurdle (even though Magic Earth, despite not being FOSS, has good enough data, at least for me), why not contribute to OSM yourself?
I do have street complete and contribute for my neighborhood, but there just aren’t enough other ppl nearby contributing to be useable. There are a lot of missing roads in my town.
For me, the main advantage of Google maps is the traffic preview. Mostly used daily to find fastest road between home and workplace
I’m fine with Google being a map company.
I miss the auto email sorting, but Proton Mail is definitely a good option, especially if you want your own domain.