It finally made me try and escape at least some of the Big G's tentacles - which is proving harder than I thought (making me even more creeped out).
For email, I'm switching to inbox.com; nice, clean interface, free account with a (very modest) ad attached to outgoing email and very good options for a paid account. Plus, they responded within 24 hours to a question I asked - an actual, useful response, written by an actual person, who had actually read my email!
As a reader, I'm liking Netvibes.com a lot (the Firefox reader, 'Brief' looks good too; but it's so clean-looking that I can't figure out how to do most of the things I'd want to do with it... Besides, I had trouble subscribing to a number of feeds with it).
So it looks like, in future, I'll be using Google as a search engine only, as much as possible. (of course I'm keeping my gmail accounts for now, everthing's forwarded). It's rather nice actually, a fresh clean start!
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It finally made me try and escape at least some of the Big G's tentacles - which is proving harder than I thought (making me even more creeped out).
For email, I'm switching to inbox.com; nice, clean interface, free account with a (very modest) ad attached to outgoing email and very good options for a paid account.
Plus, they responded within 24 hours to a question I asked - an actual, useful response, written by an actual person, who had actually read my email!
As a reader, I'm liking Netvibes.com a lot (the Firefox reader, 'Brief' looks good too; but it's so clean-looking that I can't figure out how to do most of the things I'd want to do with it... Besides, I had trouble subscribing to a number of feeds with it).
So it looks like, in future, I'll be using Google as a search engine only, as much as possible.
(of course I'm keeping my gmail accounts for now, everthing's forwarded).
It's rather nice actually, a fresh clean start!