Degoogling - Degoogle your life

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Degoogling - Degoogle your life

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00.0 - Title

00.1 - Index

00.2 - Google is officially a monopoly

01.0 - Basic description

01.1 - Repository header

01.2 - DeGoogle Ranking Scale

01.23- Wuest3NFuchs description overview

01.3.1 - What does it mean?

01.3.2 - Why Degoogle?

02.0 - Articles

03.0 - Privacy

04.0 - Other anti-Google campaigns

04.0.1 - Defunct

04.0.2 - Ongoing

05.0 - Countering other arguments

05.0.1 - Convenience

05.0.2 - Why does it matter? It's too late anyways

05.0.3 - Other

06.0 - Sources

07.0 - Download links

08.0 - My degoogling experience

08.1 - What I switched from

08.2 - Products I still can't get away from

09.0 - Go is evil

10.0 - Usage of DRM

11.0 - Common misconceptions

11.1 - Google is not the Internet

12.0 - Internet Explorer 6 and Chrome

12.1 - The problem with Brave (browser)

13.0 - Faux privacy reneweal

13.1 - Open source cannot be partial

13.2 - Oxymoron

14.0 - Bad performance

15.0 - Bad project management

16.0 - Horrible or no moderation of services

17.0 - Astroturfing

18.0 - Illegal and unethical business practices

18.1 - In Europe

18.2 - In North America

18.3 - Controversies

19.0 - Google is automated and why this is bad

20.0 - Google is a monopoly

20.1 - List of acquisitions and mergers by Google/Alphabet Inc

21.0 - Small actions to help

21.1 - Slacktivism

21.2 - Doing something

22.0 - Untrustable

23.0 - Other things to check out

24.0 - Frequently Asked Questions

24.0.1 - Why do you hate Google?

24.0.2 - Why do you fork Google projects if you hate Google?

24.0.3 - Is this a smear campaign?

25.0 - File info

25.1 - Software status

25.2 - Sponsor info

26.0 - File history

27.0 - Footer

27.9 - EOF

`Google is officially an illegal monopoly`

2024, Monday, August 5th

justive.gov

On 2024, Monday, Augusy 5th, the United States Department of Justice declared Google to be an illegal monopoly, citing the reason of bribing competitors (such as Apple) to set Google as the default search engine to stifle competition. Some in the tech community have known Google to be a monopoly long before this decision, and unfortunately, this isn't the only monopolistic thing Google is doing. This antitrust lawsuit is a breakthrough moment. At the moment, Google plans to try and repeal it. This project will continue to function nonetheless.

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Old document from 2023, Wednesday, April 26th I have of breaking up Google into smaller companies. This likely won't happen, and is incomplete and outdated, but I felt this was the best time to release it.

Plans for splitting up Google (V2) (2023)

Basic description

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From Wikipedia: Degoogle

The DeGoogle movement (also called the de-Google movement) is a grassroots campaign that has spawned as privacy activists urge users to stop using Google products entirely due to growing privacy concerns regarding the company. The term refers to the act of removing Google from one's life. As the growing market share of the internet giant creates monopolistic power for the company in digital spaces, increasing numbers of journalists have noted the difficulty to find alternatives to the company's products.

History

In 2013, John Koetsier of Venturebeat said Amazon's Kindle Fire Android-based tablet was "a de-Google-ized version of Android." In 2014 John Simpson of US News wrote about the “right to be forgotten” by Google and other search engines. In 2015, Derek Scally of Irish Times wrote an article on how to "De-Google your life." In 2016 Kris Carlon of Android Authority suggested that users of CyanogenMod 14 could “de-Google” their phones, because CyanogenMod works fine without Google apps too. In 2018 Nick Lucchesi of Inverse wrote about how ProtonMail was promoting how to "be able to completely de-Google-fy your life.” Lifehacker's Brendan Hesse wrote a detailed tutorial on "quitting Google." Gizmodo journalist Kashmir Hill claims that she missed meetings and had difficulties organizing meet ups without the use of Google Calendar. In 2019, Huawei gave a refund to phone owners in the Philippines who were inhibited from using services provided by Google because so few alternatives exist that the absence of the company's products made normal internet use unfeasible.

Degoogle-your-life

A repository for general degoogling info and links to my other degoogling repositories.

DeGoogle ranking scale

Excerpt from seanpm2001/DeGoogle-Ranking-Scale

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The DeGoogle ranking is a 1-10 scale of how far one is willing to go to rid their life of Google. It is also used to determine the level of DeGoogling an article about Google is.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how much of a DeGoogler are you?

Level 1: Google Fanatic - Not worried about DeGoogling at all, will go for every Google product and service, and possibly go against DeGooglers
Level 2: Google Cautious - A little worried about Google, will rid their life of some Google services, but not all. Will still use some Google Services, and may or may not block Google trackers
Level 3: Google Anxious - Worried about Google, and will rid their life of Google services up to their comfort level.
Level 4: Meek Anti-Google - Will cut out as many Google products from their life as they can, and possibly turn down jobs that use Google services
Level 5: Weak Anti-Google - Will cut out all Google products from their life, except for difficult ones to get rid of, such as YouTube, or Android
Level 6: Medium Anti-Google - Will cut out all Google products from their life, and will actively try to avoid Android and YouTube as well
Level 7: DeGoogler - Successfully cut out all Google products from their life, and will prevent themselves from getting into any other Google products
Level 8: DeGoogler strong - Has cut out all Google products from their life, not trying new Google services, and actively avoiding other services that have a strong emphasis on Google functionality. Will even turn down job offers that involve usage of Google products and services.
Level 9: Strict DeGoogler - Has cut out all Google products from their life, avoids all possible connections and pings to Google, won't use Google services, actively avoids sites that have a strong emphasis on Google functionality, will even block Google fonts and graphics
Level 10: Pure anti-Google - Will go to the point where they won't enter a different room or building that uses Google products or services, or displays the word Google anywhere. Will not use anything Google, even fonts and graphics, will turn down Google related jobs, will go the point of total social isolation to prevent Google from entering their lives.

Note It is not recommended to go above level 9. Level 10 is the strictest level, and is considered unhealthy

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Overview by Wuest3nFuchs

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A better description, provided by Wuest3nFuchs - source: Wuest3nFuchs/Degoogle

What does it mean? by Wuest3nFuchs

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Degoogling means to stop using anything that belongs to Google, anything that was made by Google. I'm talking about their search engine, their mail service (Gmail, Youtube, etc.

Why Degoogle? by Wuest3nFuchs

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Google is one of the most powerful companies in the world right now. They have stored a huge amount of information on all of us. Some would argue that our information is safe with them because they know how to protect it. But this isn't true. Google has been penetrated before and it will be penetrated in the future. Maybe not by some script kiddie but it will be done by a nation state. Google stores personal information on all of us because this is how they make money.

They scan our emails, store what we search when we're using their search engine, what videos we watch on Youtube. This is how they target us and build a profile on us to show us some ad based on what we talked about with our best friend so they can show us an ad for something we need, but this is too creepy. Thanks to Mr. Snowden we now know that Google has shared our personal information with NSA under a program called "PRISM".

In the future someone will be capable of accessing all that information and I assure you something really bad is going to happen. To prevent that from happening, you should start Degoogling right now. Also you shouldn't use products by a company that shares your data with NSA. You should put a stop to all of this by degoogling.

If other people can do it, you can do it too.

Articles

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Article status

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All articles are currently a work in progress and need massive improvements. Suggestions and fixes are allowed.

As of April 18th 2021 at 4:09 pm, most articles haven't been started yet. I am working on finding time and effort to start them.

Privacy

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G o o g l e h a s a v e r y v e r y b a d r e c o r d w h e n i t c o m e s t o u s e r p r i v a c y . (I could go on and on with evidence of this, but it took a long time to find and go through all these articles)

Privacy on Google products is always bad, due to all Google products containing spyware.

No matter what you do, when you are using Google, all of your sensitive personal data is being sent to Google and others. Google has also been spotted going through open programs. For example, from personal experience (on Firefox) with a YouTube tab open that I didn't visit, I watched several videos offline (VLC Media Player) Later when I went to check the recommendations, it was nearly everything that I had watched. There is no doubt they are spying on other programs too.

In Chrome (and many other browsers) an incognito mode is present. In Chrome, this mode is pointless, as Google will still mine your data. Even if you turn data mining/tracking off, and enable the "do not track" signal, surprise suprise, Google is still mining your data.

If you think you have nothing to hide, you are absolutely wrong. This argument has been debunked many times over:

Via Wikipedia

Edward Snowden remarked "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. "When you say, ‘I have nothing to hide,’ you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about this right.’ You’re saying, ‘I don’t have this right, because I’ve got to the point where I have to justify it.’ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights."
Daniel J. Solove stated in an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education that he opposes the argument; he stated that a government can leak information about a person and cause damage to that person, or use information about a person to deny access to services even if a person did not actually engage in wrongdoing, and that a government can cause damage to one's personal life through making errors. Solove wrote "When engaged directly, the nothing-to-hide argument can ensnare, for it forces the debate to focus on its narrow understanding of privacy. But when confronted with the plurality of privacy problems implicated by government data collection and use beyond surveillance and disclosure, the nothing-to-hide argument, in the end, has nothing to say."
Adam D. Moore, author of Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations, argued, "it is the view that rights are resistant to cost/benefit or consequentialist sort of arguments. Here we are rejecting the view that privacy interests are the sorts of things that can be traded for security." He also stated that surveillance can disproportionately affect certain groups in society based on appearance, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion.
Bruce Schneier, a computer security expert and cryptographer, expressed opposition, citing Cardinal Richelieu's statement "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged", referring to how a state government can find aspects in a person's life in order to prosecute or blackmail that individual. Schneier also argued "Too many wrongly characterize the debate as 'security versus privacy.' The real choice is liberty versus control."
Harvey A. Silverglate estimated that the common person, on average, unknowingly commits three felonies a day in the US.
Emilio Mordini, philosopher and psychoanalyst, argued that the "nothing to hide" argument is inherently paradoxical. People do not need to have "something to hide" in order to hide "something". What is hidden is not necessarily relevant, claims Mordini. Instead, he argues an intimate area which can be both hidden and access-restricted is necessary since, psychologically speaking, we become individuals through the discovery that we could hide something to others.
Julian Assange stated "There is no killer answer yet. Jacob Appelbaum (@ioerror) has a clever response, asking people who say this to then hand him their phone unlocked and pull down their pants. My version of that is to say, 'well, if you're so boring then we shouldn't be talking to you, and neither should anyone else', but philosophically, the real answer is this: Mass surveillance is a mass structural change. When society goes bad, it's going to take you with it, even if you are the blandest person on earth."
Ignacio Cofone, law professor, argues that the argument is mistaken in its own terms because, whenever people disclose relevant information to others, they also disclose irrelevant information. This irrelevant information has privacy costs and can lead to other harms, such as discrimination.

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Other anti-Google campaigns

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This is a list of other notable anti-Google campaigns. This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it.

Defunct

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Scroogled - By Microsoft (November 2012 to 2014)

No other entries at the moment.

Ongoing

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Spread Privacy - By DuckDuckGo (?/2019-present)

Degoogle your Life (grassroots) - No link is available, as this is a grassroots movement, meaning it has no official websit. It can be anyone in the world who respects privacy and dislikes Google enough, they don't have to tell you to be a part of the movement. The link provided will take you to the 404 page for this site.

Degoogle Your Life - By Seanpm2001 (February 2021-present !-->

No other entries at the moment.

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Countering other arguments

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There are some arguments people make to justify Google. One of the first major one is already debunked here but here are some other ones:

Convenience

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Yes, Google products seem convenient. However, you are trading everything good for convenience, including security, privacy, and reliability. Google has been getting lazier over the years, and their servers have gone down more and more. Right now, the Google servers go down for nearly an hour 1-2 times per month (most notably YouTube)

Unfortunately, due to societies reliance on Google, Google has come to dominate the Internet, and is seeking to control more and more. In 2012, when Google went down for 5 minutes, it was reported that global Internet traffic dropped by 40% Google frequently goes down for 1-2 hours, and with the firing of their ethics team among other things, they are going to become less and less convenient.

Convenience isn't always a good thing. You should be aware of what is going on and be prepared for when they go down, as there isn't a way to have a server not go down every once in a while.

Google also isn't as convenient as you think. There are other much more convenient sites. Google is far from convenient, when you account their random account suspensions and terminations with no response (unless you draw enough attention to the Google twitter account or sue them for $100,000,000 or more) then they have taken advantage of you, screwed you over, and forced you to scream into a pillow, where no-one could hear your screams for help.

Why does it matter, its too late anyways

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This is a less common argument, but it needs explanation. With the current state, most world governments, along with several powerful corporations seem to know your every move, so why even bother to get away from it? The answer is simple: you deserve better. If you manage to get away from them at this point, it is harder for them to track your moves further, and you can build a new more private life.

1 source By the way, I have been giving my free Reddit award to this post every time I get it for over a week now (along with all 500 of my free coins) to boost this topic up further. So far, I have given this post over 14 free awards. It isn't much, but small things can make a big impact, depending on how it is perceived, and by whom.

Other

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I don't have any other arguments at the moment.

Note This list is incomplete

Sources

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Copy:

G o o g l e h a s a v e r y v e r y b a d r e c o r d w h e n i t c o m e s t o u s e r p r i v a c y .

Other sources:

Five eyes Alliance/Nineteen eighty four

Download links

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Get Firefox Get Tor browser Other/unavailable

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My degoogling experience

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I finally started to see the problems with big tech in 2018, and I began degoogling. In the first few months, I made significant progress. It slowed down immensely since then.

What I switched from

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Google Chrome -> Firefox/Tor

Google Search -> DuckDuckGo (default)/Ecosia (when I feel like it)/Bing (rarely)

GMail - ProtonMail (not yet fully switched)

Google Sites -> Self hosting (not yet fully switched)

Google+ -> Hardly ever used, deleted itself due to its own shutdown

Google Docs -> Never used, I just use Microsoft Word 2013 (before 2019) and LibreOffice (2019-onward) instead.

Google Sheets -> Never used, I just use Microsoft Excel 2013 (before 2019) and LibreOffice (2019-onward) instead.

Google Slides -> Never used, I just use Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 (before 2019) and LibreOffice (2019-onward) instead.

Google Drawings -> Never used, I just use LibreOffice (2019-onward) instead.

Gerrit -> Never ussed, I just use GitHub (current default), GitLab, BitBucket, and SourceForge instead.

Google Photos -> Never used

Google Drive -> OneDrive (2019-2020) Degoo (2020-2020) pCloud (2020-present)

Google Maps -> OpenStreetMaps/Apple Maps

Go - Making a special exception, but not using as a functional programming language

Dart - Making a special exception, but not using as a functional programming language

Flutter - Making a special exception, but not using as a functional programming language

Google Earth -> OpenStreetMaps/Apple Maps

Google Streetview -> Never used, I find it extra creepy

Google Fi -> Never used

Google Calendar -> Never used

Google calculator -> Literally any other calculator app, even a Linux terminal running in Python mode if I feel like it

Google Nest -> Never used

Google AMP -> Never used

Google VPN -> Never used, also an oxymoron

Google Pay -> Never used

Google Summer of Code -> Never participated

Tenor -> Other GIF sites, although GIFs aren't too important to me. I normally get GIF files from DuckDuckGo images, Imgur, Reddit, or other sites.

Blockly -> No longer used, not sure if Scratch directly ran blockly. I became a functional programmer in 2017 onward, and grew out of Scratch.

GBoard -> Used once, but abandoned

Google Glass -> Never used, considered as a young child but decided not to get one/use one if I had the option

List may be incomplete.

June 2021 update: I have been doing a lot of switching between file services, recently settling back on Google Drive, but due to Chromium sync and dominance, the unsafeness of this method, and the future of Google outside Google Chrome, I forced myself to regain control, and switched back to full SD card backups, with AndrOpen Office replacing Microsoft Word after a few months of problems. Despite the ad festation before I open the document, it is the only way, as I can't use Google, and I can't pay for Microsoft Office. It is the only OpenOffice fork I can find for Android, and I like the interface due to its early 2000s design. Eventually, I will convert my Android phone to an Android virtual machine and probably switch to a PinePhone.

Products I still cannot get away from

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As of February 25th 2021, these are the Google products that are keeping me from fully degoogling:

YouTube
Android
Google Play Store
GMail (only for school and some sites)
Google Classroom (only for school)
Google Translate
Google Account
Google Sites (as Google is violating the laws of the GDPR (and can face another €5,000,000.00 fine until they get it fixed) and forbidding downloads of this product)

I have degoogled from everything else.

Go is evil

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Google steamrolled over the 2003 Agent Based programming language Go! with their programming language Go (from 2009, 6 years later) and claimed that their language wouldn't affect the other language at all. Google was criticized heavily for this, as their Don't be evil motto was still active at the time, and this is one of the many incidents that got the don't be evil Motto retired.

In the end, development of Go! ceased, while Go became more and more common. Google claimed they wouldn't stramroll over Go! but in the end, they did, and they got away with it (as of April 9th 2021)

Read more about Go and how to alternate here

Usage of DRM

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Google uses DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) through their WideVine DRM "service" and other forms. The goal of DRM is to destroy the open Internet and give companies monopolistic power over users. You should get rid of WideVine completely, no matter the cost.

Read more about WideVine and its problems here

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Common misconceptions

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This is a list of some common misconceptions with Google products.

Google is not the Internet

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Google/Google search is not the Internet, Google search is just a search engine, kind of like how not every game for a Nintendo platform is made by Nintendo, but is licensed by Nintendo, but to a much greater extent. If all of Googles servers were to be simultaneously destroyed right now, only Google Sites like YouTube, Gmail, Google Docs, Google search, etc. would be gone, but the majority of the Internet would still be there (Wikipedia, Stackoverflow, GitHub, all of Microsofts websites, NYTimes, Samsung, TikTok, etc.) they may lose their Google sign-in and analytical functionality, but they would still be functional (unless they were poorly programmed and relied directly on Google)

Internet Explorer 6 and Chrome

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Google Chrome is becoming the new Internet Explorer 6. When Google Chrome originally came out, Firefox was the dominant browser, and had mostly killed off Internet Explorers marketshare (which surpassed 96% before millions of people switched to Firefox and other browsers) when Google Chrome came out, people switched due to its speed and it being by Google (which wasn't considered as evil at the time, as most privacy issues hadn't come to light yet) Google Chrome originally respected web standards (which is what Firefox did that killed off Internet Explorers 96% browser marketshare) however, as Google Chromes marketshare rose, Google began removing more and more features, adding more spyware, and stopped accepting web standards, Google Chrome has become the new Internet Explorer 6.

The major problem right now is websites that are Chrome only, and won't work on other browsers, as their developers decided they didn't want the other 30-40% of Internet users who don't use Chrome to use their site.

Even Google themselves is making their sites Chrome only. For example, Google search will prompt you to download Chrome 3 times every 10 seconds if it detects you are not using Google Chrome (even other Chromium-based browsers such as Brave are affected) and sites like Google Earth don't allow Firefox users to use their site (as of 2020) plus Google Translate does not support voice input on Firefox, and other non-Google Chrome browsers.

The problem with Brave

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Other browsers that are based on Chromium, such as Brave and Microsoft Edge aren't completely free of Google spyware. Brave is commonly recommended by the wrong side of the privacy community, but Brave is still a problem, as it uses Chromium. The Internet shouldn't consist of Chromium only browsers, there should be a variety of choice. Brave is the wrong way to go.

Read more about degoogling from Google Chrome/Chromium here

Read more about degoogling from ChromeOS/ChromiumOS (Chromebooks/Chromeboxes/Chromeblets/ChromeBits/ChromeETC) here

Faux privacy renewal

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Google has been trying to tell the world they care about privacy, after it was already too late. They continue to claim they respect user privacy, but they still aren't fixing all their privacy problems.

Open source cannot be partial

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Open source can't be partial. Google is proof of this. Every bit and byte of the source code must be visible to the public, with not even an 8th of a byte hidden.

Projects like Android and ChromeOS are partially open source, but contain a majority of proprietary, spyware elements.

Oxymoron

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Google VPN is an oxymoron. Google does not care about privacy, and a Virtual Private Network (VPN) from a company like them would be one of the worst possible choices for a VPN service.

Bad performance

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Google does not care about the performance of their products as of at least 2017, as their last benchmarking software (Google Octane) was discontinued in 2017.

Bad project management

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Google has a very bad internal project management system. Some common examples of programs that have gotten more and more downgraded include Google Duo and YouTube music (formerly Google Play Music)

In Googles internal development system, 1 app leads to another app with half the functionality, then the original app gets deleted. A couple years later, a new app with 75% less functionality is made, and then the app with 50% functionality is removed, followed by a new app with 87.5% of the functionality being created, then the app with 75% functionality is discontinued, and so on.

Horrible or no moderation of services

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YouTube is the most common example in the world of bad moderation creating the worst platform in existence. Google also doesn't seem to get that YouTube isn't YouTube kids.

For YouTube, hateful pro-Nazi and White Supremacist content is served to users for the purpose of more engagement time and more money. Google also has done some very stupid things in their moderation, such as approving a Christian Anal Sex video as content made for kids while at the same time age restricting the video. It is also not too uncommon to see pornographic or gore ads being right under the Baby Shark video, along with various other made for kids content.

YouTube users complain extremely frequently about the poor moderation on YouTube for bad content (like the examples listed above) while users can get their videos deleted at random for no reason with no ability to repeal, along with users being punished for any form of swearing, even very minor cases like saying crap users commonly compare YouTube to the Soviet Union in the Stalin era, due to these unequal punishments.

In 2021, Google announced that they will put ads on all videos, despite the video being demonitized (so that Google makes money, but the creator doesn't) this doesn't relate to moderation too much, but it is important to note.

YouTube is moderated (albeit very poorly) but the Google ad service that makes them most of their money seems to have little to no moderation.

Read more about YouTube moderation issues and how to alternate from YouTube

Advertisements for Google Play are generated from bot farms, you can tell by the same ad scenarios being used by hundreds of companies with little changes, and no relation to the product (common examples: Playrix (Homescapes, Gardenscapes) Fishdom, Mafia City, and thousands more) along with a booming malicious trend of ads claiming that users can earn money by playing games, listening to music, etc. PayPal hasn't commented on this, but it is obvious that this is a scam, as if you could make over $10,000 in less than 20 seconds by playing a game guaranteed, nobody would be doing work and would be doing this instead, which is impossible, and a business could not work like this. This obvious scam has been growing strong since 2019, and now the bot farms that produce these ads are fighting with each other in their own ads.

Several advertisements are also very lewd, and attempt to get users (majority of them being users under the age of 13, or bots) to click through sexual manipulation.

Many apps use bots and astroturf their products, so whenever a bad review is made, sock puppet bot accounts will start posting 5 star reviews and attempt to negate your criticism. Google is doing this themselves as well

Read more about issues with Google AdSense

Astroturfing

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General definition (from Wikipedia)

Astroturfing is the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization (e.g., political, advertising, religious or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participants. It is a practice intended to give the statements or organizations credibility by withholding information about the source's financial connection. The term astroturfing is derived from AstroTurf, a brand of synthetic carpeting designed to resemble natural grass, as a play on the word "grassroots". The implication behind the use of the term is that instead of a "true" or "natural" grassroots effort behind the activity in question, there is a "fake" or "artificial" appearance of support.

Google has a history of astroturfing to make it seem like they aren't doing anything evil (in the process, astroturfing is evil) for example, posting critism of Google on a platform like Twitter (which they have an account on) will result in several accounts that have existed for a while but never posted before coming out and claiming that what you said is false, and then claiming that Google is the best company, but done in a way that it may not be obvious that these are bots to most people.

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Illegal and unethical business practices

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Google uses illegal and unethical business practices to further their monopoly, such as using tax havens, outsourcing jobs, and continuing to do illegal invasive activities as a cost of doing business.

In Europe

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Europe has frequently sued Google, the biggest lawsuit being against illegal behavior in Android, which resulted in Google receiving a €5,000,000,000 (equivalent to $5,947,083,703.68 in April 9th 2021 money)

In North America

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The United States has not given nearly enough of a fine to Google yet, compared to Europes €5,000,000,000 fine.

Controversies

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Google doesn't care about a problem until it creates a controversy, then they will make a poor attempt to fix it, just enough for the controversy to temporarily go away, and the problem then gets exponentially worse until it creates another controversy, and the cycle continues. They simply don't care enough to do anything serious about it.

Google is automated

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As a company, Google is mostly automated, with less moderation than automation.

A company should not be fully automated. Google is an example of this. Moderation is horrible when done only by AI, YouTube is a good example, even with the extra few (hundreds, or maybe a thousand) people moderating the site, where it is apparently so bad that most of them have to get therapy while working.

Android

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Android is owned by Google. Part of the Open Handset Alliance (which hasn't been open since Android) Android has become another monopoly point for Google, and a very hard one to escape.

Android has been reported to phone home to Google at least 10 times per day, and despite being partially open source, it still acts heavily as spyware.

Several projects have been created to alternate from Android, but require rooting your device. This simply isn't possible anymore for specific Samsung phones in the US, due to the Knox DRM. Common alternates to Android include iOS, iPadOS, LineageOS, Android x86, Ubuntu Touch, and PiPhone (Pi Phone is a brand of phones that run various Linux systems on a mobile device, such as Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, etc.)

See my research on getting a degoogled Android virtual machine functional

See how to degoogle from Android

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Google is a monopoly

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Google is one of the big 5 tech companies of the United States. Although not legally declared a monopoly by court, they actually are one. You can't easily get away from Android, there is only 1 browser that isn't Chromium-based that has a high (but still very low) marketshare (Firefox, less than 8%) and more.

List of acquisitions and mergers by Alphabet Google

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Alphabet is the parent company of Google. Alphabet Inc owns over 250 companies (255, as of 2023, Monday, January 9th) the full listing can be found here:

/Acquisitions_Mergers/

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Small actions to help

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Spreading awareness in every way you can is important. For me, I not only frequently talk about degoogling, and write articles, but I also have a small little habit, where I give my daily free Reddit award to the pinned post on r/degoogle to raise awareness. So far, I have given nearly 30 awards to the pinned post (I also spent 500 of my free coins on 10 awards for that post) this is called slacktivism which alone isn't too helpful but it can make an impact. If possible, you should also try to get the word out, and do something other than just slacktivism

Slacktivism

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Slacktivism can be good when paired with activism, although if you literally can't be an activist, you can at least be a slacktivist. Slacktivism by itself isn't too helpful, but it can reach out to other people and get them to realize the issue. Although, you should at least try to do something. See below for more info.

Doing something

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If you remain hopeless and closed minded, and decide to not even try to Degoogle, you are only siding with Google and making the problem worse. You don't have to immediately switch from all Google products, most Degooglers slowly fix 1 problem at a time, with weeks to months in between at times.

Here are some helpful links for finding alternatives to Google software:

Switching.software

No other links at the moment

Untrustable

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Google cannot be trusted, and can never be trusted ever again. They have completely gone from "don't be evil" (they were always evil) to just being completely evil and not trying to hide it.

Frequently Asked Questions

No questions have been asked about the project yet, so I will add some that I believe will be common.

Why do you hate Google?

Google has a history of bad business practices, spying on users, steamrolling over small developers, among other things.

Why do you fork Google projects if you hate Google?

I am a software archivist, and even with my problems with Google, their works still need to be archived. I make forks, as it is easy to do, and creates a database of repository copy snapshots for future reference. I also hope for free software versions of Google Go, Dart, Mojom, Flutter, Protocol Buffer, LookML, and others in the future.

Is this a smear campaign?

No, this project is not a smear campaign. It is an activist database of criticism of Google across all of its products, services, and hardware. Any claims made here have to be backed up with evidence, or else they will be removed.

Other things to check out

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The Google Graveyard (killedbygoogle.com) - a sorted list of the 224+ products Google has killed

GitHub link

Alphabet worker union - The new workers union at Google with over 800 members

Don't want to part with the dinosaur easter egg? This website has you covered

There are other alternates, just search for them.

Note Some fact checking is needed for this article

File info

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File type: Markdown document (*.md *.mkd *.mdown *.markdown)

Line count (including blank lines and compiler line): 2,831

File version: 65 (2024, Monday, August 5th at 09:11 pm PST)

All times are UTC-7 (PDT/Pacific Time) account for daylight savings time as well (it's a pain, I know)

The encoding is UTF-8 and is compatible with Unicode 5.0 and up

Note on 2022, Sunday, March 13th at 2:00 am PST, the time jumped ahead 1 hour to 3:00 am.

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Software status

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All of my works are free some restrictions. DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) is not present in any of my works.

This sticker is supported by the Free Software Foundation. I never intend to include DRM in my works.

I am using the abbreviation "Digital Restrictions Management" instead of the more known "Digital Rights Management" as the common way of addressing it is false, there are no rights with DRM. The spelling "Digital Restrictions Management" is more accurate, and is supported by Richard M. Stallman (RMS) and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)

This section is used to raise awareness for the problems with DRM, and also to protest it. DRM is defective by design and is a major threat to all computer users and software freedom.

Image credit: defectivebydesign.org/drm-free/...

Sponsor info

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<-- Don't click this button, it doesn't work, it is just an image. The real button is at the top of the page in the right (<- L R ->) corner

You can sponsor this project if you like, but please specify what you want to donate to. See the funds you can donate to here

You can view other sponsor info here

Try it out! The sponsor button is right up next to the watch/unwatch button.

File history

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Version 1 (Friday, February 19th 2021 at 5:20 pm PST)

This version was developed by @seanpm2001

Changes:

Started the file

Added the basic description section

Added the repository description section

Added the articles list, with 14 entries

Added a related articles section

Added a see also section

Added the file info section

Added the file history section

Added the footer

No other changes in version 1

Version 2 (Friday, February 19th 2021 at 5:26 pm PST)

This version was developed by @seanpm2001

Changes:

Added the translation status section

Added the Other things to check out section

Added the privacy section

Added an index

Added the software status subsection

Added the other anti-Google campaigns section

Added the defunct subsection

Added the ongoing subsection

Added the sources section

Added the download links section

Updated the file info section

Updated the file history section

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Version 3 (Wednesday, February 24th 2021 at 7:56 pm PST)

This version was developed by @seanpm2001

Changes:

Updated the index

Referenced the degoogle icon and the new GitHub organization

Added links to newer articles

Added the countering other arguments section

Added the convenience subsection

Added the Why even bother subsection

Added the other subsection

Updated some data

Updated the file info section

Updated the file history section

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Version 4 (Thurday, February 25th 2021 at 9:31 pm PST)

This version was developed by @seanpm2001

Changes:

Added links to 10 new articles

Added a section about my experience degoogling

Updated the index

Updated the file info section

Updated the file history section

No other changes in version 4

Version 5 (Friday, April 9th 2021 at 6:02 pm PST)

This version was developed by @seanpm2001

There has been a lack of updates to the anti-Google movement from me lately, I am working on getting back to it after a 1+ month hiatus.

Changes:

Updated the title section

Updated the index

Updated the language list: fixed links, and added more supported languages

Updated the article status section, adding 4 fork links

Updated the software status section

Added the Go is evil section

Added the Usage of DRM section

Added the Common misconceptions section

Added the Google is not the Internet subsection

Added the Internet Explorer 6 and Chrome section

Added the The problem with Brave subsection

Added the Faux privacy removal

Added the Open source cannot be partial subsection

Added the Oxymoron subsection

Added the Bad performance section

Added the Bad project management section

Added the Horrible or no moderation of services section

Added the Astroturfing section

Added the Illegal and unethical business practices section

Added the In Europe subsection

Added the In North America subsection

Added the Controversies subsection

Added the Google is automated section

Added the Android section

Added the Small actions to help section

Added the Untrustable section

Added the sponsor info section

Updated the footer

Updated the file info section

Updated the file history section

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Version 6 (Sunday, April 18th 2021 at 4:29 pm PST)

This version was developed by @seanpm2001

Changes:

Updated the index

Added a new overview description

Updated article status info

Added a link to the new Google FLoC article

Added a link to Wuest 3n Fuchs Degoogle article and general info on it

Updated the file info section

Updated the file history section

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Version 7 (Saturday, June 26th 2021 at 8:20 pm PST)

This version was developed by @seanpm2001

Changes:

Updated the title section

Updated the language list

Updated the index

Updated the anti-Google campaigns section

Updated the see also section

Updated the small actions to help section

Created the Slacktivism section

Created the Doing something section

Updated the articles list

Updated the file info section

Updated the file history section

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Version 8 (2022, Monday, January 3rd at 2:57 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Added the contributor badge

Added the contributors section

Added @seanpm2001 to the contributors section

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Version 9 (2022, Monday, January 3rd at 3:01 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 2

Updated the contributors section

Added @all-contributors to the contributors section

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Version 10 (2022, Monday, January 3rd at 3:05 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 3

Updated the contributors section

Added @GaurPeeyush to the contributors section

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Version 11 (2022, Monday, January 3rd at 3:30 pm PST)

This version was developed by @seanpm2001

Note I have been working heavily on the WideVine DRM article lately, as it is my most popular project, and my most popular DeGoogle project (currently at 29 stars)

Changes:

Fixed several links

Duplicated the contributors badge and placed it directly above the contributors section

Updated the footer

Updated the file info section

Updated the file history section

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Version 12 (2022, Wednesday, January 19th at 4:23 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 4
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Gamer191 to the contributors section
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Version 13 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 5:24 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 5
Updated the contributors section
- Added @DeGoogle-your-Life to the contributors section
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Version 14 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 5:28 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 6
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Its-time-to-cut-WideVine-DRM to the contributors section
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Version 15 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 5:32 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 7
Updated the contributors section
- Added @What-the-FLoC to the contributors section
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Version 16 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 5:36 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 8
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Google to the contributors section
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Version 17 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 5:39 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 9
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Android to the contributors section
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Version 18 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 5:43 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 10
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Candroid-dev to the contributors section
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Version 19 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 5:49 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 11
Updated the contributors section
- Added @WebNetPlus to the contributors section
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Version 20 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 5:53 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 12
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Privacy to the contributors section
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Version 21 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 5:58 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 13
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-GPL to the contributors section
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Version 22 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:02 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 14
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-All to the contributors section
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Version 23 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:05 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 15
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Web to the contributors section
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Version 24 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:11 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 16
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Articles to the contributors section
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Version 25 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:15 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 17
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Documentation to the contributors section
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Version 26 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:24 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 18
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-HTML5-lang to the contributors section
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Version 27 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:28 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 19
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Go-lang to the contributors section
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Version 28 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:31 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 20
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-GoogleGo-lang to the contributors section
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Version 29 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:35 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 21
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Dart-lang to the contributors section
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Version 30 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:38 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 22
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Starlark-lang to the contributors section
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Version 31 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:42 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 23
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Blockly-lang to the contributors section
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Version 32 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:45 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 24
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-YouTube to the contributors section
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Version 33 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:48 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 25
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Research to the contributors section
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Version 34 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:52 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 26
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Browsers to the contributors section
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Version 35 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:56 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 27
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Security to the contributors section
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Version 36 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 6:59 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 28
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Portals to the contributors section
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Version 37 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:03 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 29
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-MostDeveloped to the contributors section
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Version 38 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:06 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 30
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Go-ogle-engine to the contributors section
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Version 39 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:10 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 31
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-JSON-lang to the contributors section
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Version 40 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:13 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 32
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Markdown-lang to the contributors section
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Version 41 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:18 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 33
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Makefile-lang to the contributors section
No other changes in version 41

Version 42 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:25 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 34
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-MediaWiki-lang to the contributors section
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Version 43 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:29 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 35
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-ReStructuredText-lang to the contributors section
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Version 44 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:32 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 36
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Social to the contributors section
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Version 45 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:36 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 37
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-DuckDuckGo to the contributors section
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Version 46 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:39 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 38
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-DDG to the contributors section
No other changes in version 46

Version 47 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:42 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 39
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-Ecosia to the contributors section
No other changes in version 47

Version 48 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:45 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 40
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Seanpm2001-SearchEngines to the contributors section
No other changes in version 48

Version 49 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:48 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 41
Updated the contributors section
- Added @seanwallawalla-social to the contributors section
No other changes in version 49

Version 50 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:51 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 42
Updated the contributors section
- Added @seanwallawalla-security to the contributors section
No other changes in version 50

Version 51 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:54 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 43
Updated the contributors section
- Added @seanwallawalla-tools to the contributors section
No other changes in version 51

Version 52 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 7:57 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 44
Updated the contributors section
- Added @seanwallawalla-images to the contributors section
No other changes in version 52

Version 53 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 8:00 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 45
Updated the contributors section
- Added @SNU-YouTubeMode to the contributors section
No other changes in version 53

Version 54 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 8:04 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 46
Updated the contributors section
- Added @seanpm2001-Hardware to the contributors section
No other changes in version 54

Version 55 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 8:08 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 47
Updated the contributors section
- Added @seanpm2001-Samsung to the contributors section
No other changes in version 55

Version 56 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 8:11 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 48
Updated the contributors section
- Added @seanpm2001-Software to the contributors section
No other changes in version 56

Version 57 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 8:14 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 49
Updated the contributors section
- Added @seanwallawalla-Software to the contributors section
No other changes in version 57

Version 58 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 8:17 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 50
Updated the contributors section
- Added @SNU-Privacy to the contributors section
No other changes in version 58

Version 59 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 8:21 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 51
Updated the contributors section
- Added @SNU-Privacyinitiative to the contributors section
No other changes in version 59

Version 60 (2022, Tuesday, April 5th at 8:24 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 52
Updated the contributors section
- Added @Snapshot-Version-Control-System to the contributors section
No other changes in version 60

Note A ton of entries (50) related to the @all-contributors are currently in the process of being listed, along with 1 other contributed edit

Version 61 (2022, Saturday, April 30th at 1:07 pm PST)

This version was developed by @indatawetrust

Changes:

Optimized 2 links in the table of contents
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Version 62 (2022, Sunday, May 1st at 3:34 pm PST)

This version was developed by @all-contributors

Changes:

Updated the contributor badge, changing it to 53
Updated the contributors section
- Added @indatawetrust to the contributors section
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Version 63 (2022, Monday, January 9th at 4:44 pm PST)

This version was developed by @seanpm2001

Changes:

TODO: Make all version entries into dropdowns

Version 64 (2023, Monday, March 20th at 2:56 pm PST)

This version was developed by @seanpm2001

Note This release makes some changes to the project. I feel it is perfect for the time being now.

Changes:

Updated the index
Added the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) section
Updated the all-contributors section to clarify dead links
Updated the File info section
Updated the File history section
- Added an entry for version 64
No other changes in version 64

Version 65 (2024, Monday, August 5th at 09:11 pm PST)

This version was developed by @seanpm2001

Note This release takes advantage of the newest major update, where Google has legally been declared a monopoly in the United States.

Changes:

Updated the index
Added the Google is officially a monopoly section
Updated the File info section
Updated the File history section
- Added an entry for version 65
- Added blank entries for versions 127 to 130
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_{Sean P. Myrick V19.1.7.2} 📖 🖋 🚧 📝	_{All Contributors} 📖	_{Peeyush Gaur} 🎨	_gamer191 📖 🐛 🧑‍🏫 👀	_{Degoogle your life} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{It is time to cut WideVine DRM} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{What the FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts)} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧
_{Seanpm2001 Google projects} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 Android (Google)} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_Candroid 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_WebNet+ 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 Privacy Center} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 GPL (General Public License)} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 (All)} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧
_{Seanpm2001 web software} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 articles} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 Documentation} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 HTML5 projects} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 Go! language} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 Go (2009 Google language) project} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 Dart language} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧
_{Seanpm2001 Starlark language} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 Blockly language} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 YouTube} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 research facility} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 Browsers} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 Security} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Seanpm2001 Portals} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧
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_{SNU Privacy} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{SNU Privacy Initiative} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Snapshot Version Control System (SVCS)} 💻 📖 📦 🖋 🎨 🚧	_{Ahmet Simsek} 🚧

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Google is officially an illegal monopoly

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Google is not the Internet

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Open source cannot be partial

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Google is automated

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Google is a monopoly

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Why do you hate Google?

Why do you fork Google projects if you hate Google?

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