De-Google Your Life - Part 1: Start With Chrome

“De-google your life” *uploads the video on YouTube*

I am legally obligated to say that I use Firefox, just like 70% of the Wan Show audience

"De-Google your life" stares at title on Pixel 7 pro ..."well about that..."

Honestly, I never understood people hating on Firefox. My everyday experience with it falls nothing short of what to expect with other big browsers, I'd even argue the contrary! And obviously knowing there's a nonprofit behind it, fighting for an inclusive and private internet for everyone just makes me love it more :)

Cant wait for google to mysteriously forget to suggest this series to people in recommended

“Let’s start with the product that you’re most likely using right now…Google Chrome.” That would be YouTube, sir.

After google announced the AI integration into the search engine I switched my safari search engine to ecosia on my phone, and after youtube has been lagging horribly on chrome because I use an ad blocker, I was in the midst of changing my browser. This video is a godsend and now I have a path to follow on my journey to de-google my internet life

Something to note about Proton and Tuta for switching emails is that the end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) of the two services only work when one Proton mail is sent to another, or one Tuta mail to another. Sadly it's just not possible to have E2EE work without email providers like Gmail actually co-operating with Proton and Tuta's encryption methods. Therefore, if you send an email to your family members who all use Gmail or Hotmail accounts, you're guaranteed to not have a private, encrypted email sent to them, unless they also use Proton or Tuta. I'm not sure that Proton's encryption is compatible with Tuta's either. This isn't to say you should stick with filthy Google because it's encryption isn't cross-compatible; if we want to see change in the world of privacy (or lack of), we need to show the demand by supporting more privacy respecting services for the future. I'm so glad a big channel like Linus is spreading awareness about Privacy issues in the online world. even if some of the service suggestions in this video aren't the best for privacy, most are certainly a huge step-up from the popular big-tech options like Google & Microsoft.

linus searching "employee won't stay fired" and "biggest legal tv" is now canon

Obligatory "I use Firefox" declaration here. My coworkers call me a boomer for using it though; even though I'm the youngest person there.

This is such an awesome series. While part of this I've already done alternatives for, getting to see a fully comprehensive overview with recommendations on alternatives is a lot more reassuring than trying to sort through clickbait articles to find good alternatives on my own.

Thank you so much for this series. I'm taking this opportunity to de-google and, to an extent, de Apple my life.

To completely de-Google this has to be a 10 part series at least.

this is like a session with a therapist with a step by step plan about how to exit a toxic relationship

Kagi is seriously underrated. Takes a bit of effort to set up on your phone, but its gold

Definitively need a follow-up to this with De-Microsoft your life, and probably many of the other big names in tech.

i think this is probably one of the most important LTT video of all time. True to the roots of the channel, it provides literal tech tips for a significant part of life in 2024

I think a good addition to these types of videos is putting it all together and have someone actually take a suite of these products for a test drive, kinda like the Intel GPU or Linux challenge. Then they can let us know what worked well and what didn’t.

thanks for the video, i was already using firefox but now I also have brave as my default search engine and i've started migrating to proton for my emails, can't wait for part 2

This is a pretty important topic that I've been trying for a while. Excited about this series!