Divorcing Google - Well Maybe Just a Separation. It can be done - Apparently

By Pepper Parr

March 29th, 2022

BURLINGTON, ON

 

Do you want Google out of your life?

Apparently it can be done.

Security software we use – Malwarebytes – (they are good and reasonably priced) does a series of Podcats.

They did one recently that is worth the time.

It is long – runs 49 minutes. But if you really want to know just how this stuff works and what you can do to limit its impact on your digital life.

When you get to the podcast, scroll down to De-Googling Carey Parker’s (and your) life

I know for certain that one of my readers –  goes by the name “Putz” will be listening.

De-Googling Carey Parker’s (and your) life In the latest episode of Lock and Code, host David Ruiz looks at the steps to removing Google and its many services from your life.

 

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5 comments to Divorcing Google – Well Maybe Just a Separation. It can be done – Apparently

  • Fred Unterlander

    Mr. Parr – if I understand this correctly, there is someone out there that you know and allow to comment under the name of “Putz”. Is this not entirely inconsistent with your rule that everyone should know with whom they’re dealing or is it simply that “you” need to “know”? Just to put the fox in the henhouse, and recognizing that it is your paper and your rules (and your football so to speak), I don’t think that you have explained why exactly it is that ‘you’ need to know.

    Editor’s note: You, once again, misread the story. The reader goes by the nickname Putz but does not use that name when he comments. Further, I have yet to set out what the rules are going to be – so be patient.

    • Fred Untermeyer

      Fair enough – so I did. And you, once again, did not answer the question. Articulating your commenting rules does not answer why it is that ‘you’ need to know the commenter’s identity. Does “Putz”, in fact, comment under his own name?

    • Joe Gaetan

      Actually you wrote, “there is someone out there that you know and allow to comment under the name of “Putz”. While in fact the article stated “I know for certain that one of my readers – goes by the name “Putz” will be listening.” Bug difference. Curious, is Fred Untertander a pseudonym?

      • Fred Unterlander

        Well,, I would answer you Mr. Gaetan but, like my reply to the Editor’s note, it would not be published. I’m quite tired of the arbitrary discretion that is employed with this comments section. I won’t comment any further.

  • Joe Gaetan

    Tired of GOOGLE hammering you with ads, try http://www.duckduckgo.com
    If you have “Chrome” it will want you to add DDG to CHROME..don’t.
    The “internet” was takem over long ago by “algorithms” and “bots” and by a few money grabbing, “advernet” billionaires.
    Quack Quack