Since people always mention wanting to do this in the comments but say it's always say too hard

Google product - Alternative

Google Search - Bing

Google Drive - iCloud

Google Chrome - Safari

Gmail - Outlook

Google Photos - Amazon Photos (if you have Prime, it's unlimited photos storage + 5GB for videos) or Apple Photos

YouTube - TikTok

Waymo - Uber or Lyft

Let me know if I missed anything in the comments section and what I should cover next post

  • worlds_okayest_mech_pilot [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Not a bad list. I have a couple alternate suggestions, though, that I think are easier to switch to in a lot of cases.

    Google Search - "1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in "advanced" countries."

    Google Drive - "2. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy."

    Google Chrome - "3. If the system-