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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jan 2017

      Google bans privacy tool #AdNauseam because Google makes money by violating your privacy. Do not use Google.https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html …

      15 replies 268 retweets 213 likes
    2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jan 2017
      Replying to @aral

      You can remove Google from your life today without missing a thing. Unlike Facebook and Twitter, none of their products are unique.

      4 replies 20 retweets 29 likes
      Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jan 2017

      How to remove Google from your life: 1. Use @duckduckgo for search 2. Use local office apps (e.g., iWork) 3. Use @FastMail 4. Use @Vimeo …

      2:55 AM - 7 Jan 2017
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        2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @aral

          Tell your local schools not to buy Google spyware in the form of Google Chromebooks – boycott Google for Education. #GoodbyeGoogle

          3 replies 16 retweets 17 likes
        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @aral

          Stop congratulating your friends when they get a job at Google or when Google buys their startup. Stop normalising surveillance capitalism.

          3 replies 26 retweets 31 likes
        4. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @aral

          There’s never been a better time to say #GoodbyeGoogle

          2 replies 11 retweets 11 likes
        5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @aral

          Have you stopped using Google products/services? Share your story of how you said #GoodbyeGoogle

          14 replies 11 retweets 21 likes
        6. Yuval يوڤال Adam‏ @yuvadm 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @aral

          moved to @duckduckgo, @FastMail, and @openstreetmap years ago, not looking back #GoodbyeGoogle

          2 replies 10 retweets 14 likes
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        2. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 10 Jan 2017

          We don’t block it outright so as not to break functionality but we do block cookies to it. Best way: get devs to stop using it :)

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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        4. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 10 Jan 2017

          Hmm, Interesting. Could be a protect there for seamlessly rewriting URLs to Google-hosted libraries to a non-tracking host.

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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        2. Anthony Fox-Davies‏ @AFDIT 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @aral

          You're a bit cocky on this one. It's a MASSIVE effort to manually create a productive totally non-Google environment especially in biz

          1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @AFDIT

          Indeed. But perhaps the times call for a little cockiness ;)

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Anthony Fox-Davies‏ @AFDIT 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @aral

          It can distract from real alternatives though if you don't address the full picture. Google is a 1stopshop monolith

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @AFDIT

          And the way you replace a monolith is with a thousand alternatives; death by a thousand cuts.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        6. Anthony Fox-Davies‏ @AFDIT 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @aral

          that's a non answer in terms of actual alternatives. Many people don't want a thousand logins for a thousand tools...

          2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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        2. Bernard Jansen‏ @BernardJansen 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @aral

          @mcpaccard can you be TOTALLY without Google and Facebook and still live in this century?

          5 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @BernardJansen

          Google, yes. Facebook, probably (for now). Twitter (for me, harder, but yes)… problem is the list goes on… +@mcpaccard

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Jan-Christoph Borchardt‏Verified account @jancborchardt 8 Jan 2017
          Replying to @aral @BernardJansen @mcpaccard

          well I totally think that’s possible and still live in this century ;) It’s also why I work on @Nextclouders

          0 replies 2 retweets 5 likes
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        2. Jeppe Cramon‏ @jeppec 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @aral

          I'm still missing good online photo storage other than storing it in a cloud drive (need a little more features). Got any suggestions?

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @jeppec

          Tell me features you need and I’ll ask my followers for advice :) (I use Photos on Mac)

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Jeppe Cramon‏ @jeppec 7 Jan 2017
          Replying to @aral

          I used to use Photos, but there were too many bugs/problems. I'm looking for something with features like Google Photos (paid version)

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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