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+Deooglization
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+
+:date: 2013-10-03
+:tags: hints,deooglization
+:category: hints
+:author: Jude N
+
+Here are the steps I've taken recently to cut down on the amount of free data I've been passing on to Google, and by proxy any unsupervised
+NSA contractors who may be running amok. I've taken to calling this project 'Deooglization'.
+
+- Uninstalled Chrome , switched back to Firefox for daily browsing
+- Switched the search bar to use DDG via `the DuckDuckGo Plus addon`_
+- Shuttered the G+ account associated with my identity
+- Migrated away from gmail
+ - Implemented most of Daniel Patterson's `Hacker's Replacement for GMail`_ (minus notmuch since I don't live in Emacs that deeply)
+- On StackOveflow, I stopped using Google for an OpenID source and switched to `openid.stackexchange.com`_
+- Removed as many Google apps from my phone as I could.
+
+Outside of Google, I also shut down the Flickr account associated with my identity. I haven't had a Facebook in ages so there wsa nothing to shut down there.
+I haven't shut down my Twitter account yet, but it's just a matter of time, I suppose.
+
+I've also found that `diversifying my passwords`_ has helped a lot: in a few cases where I'd gone to google out of habit, it's been such a PITA to
+retrieve my password that I just do something else, like take a walk or catch up on the laundry.
+
+Next steps: setting up `a Dropbox replacement`.
+
+.. _the DuckDuckGo Plus addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-for-firefox/
+.. _Hacker's Replacement for GMail: http://dbpmail.net/essays/2013-06-29-hackers-replacement-for-gmail.html
+.. _openid.stackexchange.com: https://openid.stackexchange.com/
+.. _diversifying my passwords: https://pwan.org/blog/a-password-diversification-plan.html
+.. _a Dropbox replacement: https://raymii.org/s/articles/Set_up_your_own_truly_secure_encrypted_shared_storage_aka_Dropbox_clone.html
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