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= DeGoogle =
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Introduction
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The DeGoogle movement (also called the de-Google movement) is a
grassroots campaign that has spawned as privacy advocates urge users
to stop using Google products entirely due to growing privacy concerns
regarding the company.
Background
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As the growing market share of the internet giant creates monopolistic
power for the company in digital spaces, increasing numbers of
journalists and individuals have noted the difficulty to find
alternatives to the company's products.
Some projects, such as ungoogled-chromium, /e/ and MicroG primarily
distinguish themselves from Google-maintained products by their
lessened dependence on the company's infrastructure.
It can be seen as part of a broader opposition to big tech companies,
sometimes referred to as "techlash".
History
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In 2008, Lee Hinman began making the move away from Google tools, 'in
the interests of privacy', and blogged about his experience in a post
entitled 'De-googling'.
In 2010, publisher Jack Yan used the term as he removed himself from
Google's services, citing privacy concerns. Five days later, Kirk
McElhearn wrote a piece about "dropping Google" in 'Macworld', citing
privacy, deletions of Blogger blogs, and censorship.
In 2013, John Koetsier of 'Venturebeat' said Amazon's Kindle Fire
Android-based tablet was "a de-Google-ized version of Android".
In 2014, John Simpson of 'US News' wrote about the "right to be
forgotten" by Google and other search engines.
In 2015, Derek Scally of 'Irish Times' wrote an article on how to
"de-Google your life".
In 2016 Kris Carlon of Android Authority suggested that users of
CyanogenMod 14 could "de-Google" their phones, because CyanogenMod
works fine without Google apps too.
In 2018, Nick Lucchesi of Inverse wrote about how ProtonMail was
promoting how to "be able to completely de-Google-fy your life". Tuta
(email) also called on Internet users to leave Google completely for
privacy reasons.
'Lifehacker''s Brendan Hesse wrote a detailed tutorial on "quitting
Google".
'Gizmodo' journalist Kashmir Hill claims that she missed meetings and
had difficulties organizing meet ups without the use of Google
Calendar. In 2020, she wrote another article on avoiding large tech
companies in which she discussed how disabling Google prevented her
from using Dropbox, Uber, Lyft, and Yelp, and described Amazon and
Google as "so embedded in the architecture of the digital world that
even their competitors had to rely on their services".
In 2022, comic artist and activist Leah Elliott published a Creative
Commons web comic criticizing Google Chrome's privacy practices,
entitled "Contra Chrome".
Huawei
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In 2019, Huawei gave a refund to phone owners in the Philippines who
were inhibited from using services provided by Google because so few
alternatives exist that the absence of the company's products made
normal internet use unfeasible.
In 2020, Huawei launched Petal as an alternative to Google Search.
Android distributions without Google software
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In April 2019, GrapheneOS announced its release, a privacy-focused
android distribution without any Google app installed by default. The
open source Android (AOSP)-based operating system LineageOS (a fork of
Cyanogen) was officially launched on 24 December 2016.
See also
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* Googlization
* Criticism of Google
* Big Tech
* Alt-tech
External links
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* Framasoft's internet degoogling project:
[https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/ Degooglisons-internet]
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