Over the course of the past couple of months I’ve become more aware of the privacy issues of the modern internet. I’m not paranoid, but I’m also not a fan of big corporations tracking me and trying to sell me stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Back in the day, I left Hotmail and signed up for Gmail, when it had a 1 GB storage limit that far exceeded most other services as well as probably the best spam filter around. I liked the company with its “Don’t be evil” motto – and somehow, over the years, I came to rely on it for a big part of my online life, especially after switching from the original iPhone to Android (because I’d gotten tired of having to jailbreak after every update just to get functioning video recording and of having only 4GB of storage).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, recently I started to feel that it was more than a little creepy, how much Google knew about me – plus I got sick and tired of having ads in my email. So I made some changes, and now I can say that the only Google service I still use regularly is Youtube (mostly because that’s where the ASMR<\/a> videos live *g*) and the Android app store on my phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This might not interest anyone, but here’s what I’ve done so far:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additionally I’m checking out Mastodon<\/a>, a federated Twitter alternative. You can find me on the mastodon.cloud<\/a> instance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n