Time to De-Google
I’ve been talking to some of my friends lately and we’ve become so disappointed with the big Tech companies. The social media companies cancel anyone who expresses an opinion other than that of the mainstream media and companies like Google and Facebook have the ability to track your every step – even if you have location tracking turned off . It’s been a crazy turn of events. At the turn of the century, we were enamored with Google. They offered an array of free software that made life so simple (e.g., Google maps/directions). The company’s motto of “Do No Evil” earned fans the world over. But things have clearly changed. They’ve constructed a web of applications that we’ve all been caught in. And, like flies caught in spider web, we’ll all eventually have the life sucked out of us. Over the years, the company seemed to co-opt the Android movement and made it difficult to separate from their ecosystem (gmail, youtube, etc.). Then, they scrapped the Do no Evil pledge. We started to look for alternatives but realized that iPhone and Google’s version of Android owns ove