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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)
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[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Yeee I'm using Firefox. It's just difficult to desynch the Google services with all my accounts tied to it I had to one by one change em or even make new accounts entirely.

The worst is the fucking Google authentication app and how it's tied into stuff like Discord...At least I'm out of the Google ouroboros now but it was still intensely painful.

[–] hersh@literature.cafe 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't understand the problem. Google services work in Firefox pretty much the same way, yeah? Does Chrome integrate an authenticator app? If som you might want change your 2FA settings at https://myaccount.google.com/security . If you have an Android phone you can get push notifications on it, or you can also use third-party authenticator apps.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

...the problem is that I wanna get rid of Google services lol.

[–] hersh@literature.cafe 3 points 2 years ago

Oh, gotcha. I misunderstood and thought you were describing a Chrome-vs-Firefox difference specifically. Yeah, I can relate. I'm de-googling my life but I'm not sure I'll ever be 100% de-googled. I'm taking it bit by bit. I sign up for new things with different email addresses now and occasionally I'll change existing services if it's possible. But there's no way I'm going to go through my bajillion web site accounts and move them all.

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