@roknrol @futurebird Huh. I haven't run into those yet. I just assumed FreeTube was working around them, but I try to stay away from news and politics on YT so maybe that's it.

@futurebird I have grapheneOS and use proton for email and cloud storage. I have a legacy gmal account but rarely log in. Just to check anything old that came in.

I try to use organic maps as much as I can but google maps traffic is too valuable sometimes so I often eject to my "google" profile for that.

I still watch YouTube but am trying to take my usage down and rotate through smaller services like curiosity, floatplane, etc

@Linebyline Usually it's music videos and a few videos by Simon Whistler (one of the more recent vids was an expose on a particular criminal gang).

It's not stuff that I miss too much, but it is annoying when it shows up in my feed.

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@privacy_guru @GinevraCat @futurebird true, it's only copy and paste

@moriel @futurebird This is me exactly - thanks for saving me so much typing!

@futurebird I've gone the other way. I have chosen to allow exactly one evil corporation to spy on me, so I'm letting Google have it all and I'm avoiding Facebook/Meta, Twitter/X, Apple, Amazon/everything else.

@futurebird I don't aspire to be Google-free, but I am absolutely working on migrating the vast majority of my photos off. also contacts.

@futurebird youtube is a hell of a drug

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I clicked 2 and 3.

I have a gmail account but it's only connected to my phone for playstore, which I avoid as much as possible,

On my PC I use YouTube and Streetview occasionally, but in their own container tabs separate from everything else. I never log in.

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I feel like you might appreciate the French word dégafamisation (and the reflexive verb se dégafamiser) where "gafam" means "Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft"

@futurebird I use my Google account exclusively to log into YouTube via browser to be able to change from auto translated videos to original language and just focus on channels I am following. I switched my mail account a couple of years ago and gave up on Android phones after a Samsung galaxy 2. For car navigation I use Google Maps on an iPhone without login or Apple Maps. I mostly ride by bike or train and for last mile navigation I use @organicmaps.

@darkling @futurebird running your own mail for 25 years is impressive.

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i have a gmail account, and i use youtube a lot. the gmail account is being slowly put out to pasture so that nothing important ever lands in it. the amount of spam it gets is absurd.

@futurebird I don't fit in your survey. I use and depend on Google for search, translation, maps ((including google earth app) and Youtube. I limit everything else. I have Google Chrome and only time I use it is to report problems in maps because you I can't report when using Firefox.

@futurebird I have no PERSONAL google account. I need to have one for work tho, because auth0 and stuff.

@futurebird I responded "don't aspire" however, it's nuanced. I don't use search, but do use mail, docs, drive and YouTube. As a kpop fan, would be particularly hard to sever from YT, not to mention tons of other great content.

I am mentally prepared for the exigency of having to exit Google, as I did recently with Spotify.

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I had an account to download some wedding pictures back in 2010. I no longer remember the password and the couple are now divorced.