HN 读者分享：我摆脱了谷歌
5 分•作者: degoogled•3 个月前
我非常怀念以前的谷歌，那个极客式的谷歌，那个“不作恶”的谷歌……谷歌阅读器、安卓、GTalk 等等。它们让与朋友的沟通变得容易多了。
我已经在两年左右的时间里将所有东西都从谷歌生态系统中迁移出来，但谷歌相册是最难的部分，因为它包含了太多我不想冒险丢失的珍贵回忆。
压垮骆驼的最后一根稻草是，我不小心订阅了带有 AI 的 Google One，它的费用比单纯的额外存储空间高得多。对我来说这笔钱不算多，但当我发现无法降级时，为了原则，我必须导出我的谷歌照片，并编写一个脚本将它们导入到苹果照片（苹果也不是什么好公司，它们都不是）中，同时不丢失元数据。
我还将它们迁移到了 Backblaze，那里我已经备份了五年多了，为了增加更多的冗余，我还使用 Borgmatic 将它们备份到了 BorgBase。
摆脱谷歌了！现在我所有的照片和视频都在我手中（约 238 GB）。
我的邮件客户端不再臃肿。嗯，假设苹果不决定在 Apple Mail 中强加 AI。
我仍然付费的唯一谷歌服务是 YouTube。作为回报，我获得了零烦人的广告，其中许多广告推广赌博网站等非法内容。我的广告拦截器解决了电脑上的问题，但在电视上情况要困难得多，我已经到了需要花费大量时间来规避这些问题的年纪了。
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I really enjoyed the old Google, the nerd Google, the "don’t be evil" Google... Google Reader, Android, GTalk, etc. It made communication with my friends much easier.<p>I had already been moving everything away from the Google ecosystem for about two years, but Google Photos was the hardest part because it contained so many memories that I wouldn’t risk losing.<p>The final straw was when I accidentally subscribed to Google One with AI, which costs much more than simple additional storage. It’s not that much money for me, but when I found out I couldn’t downgrade, it became a matter of principle to do a Google Takeout of my photos and create a script to import them into Apple Photos (which is also not a nice company, none of them really are) without losing metadata.<p>I also moved them to Backblaze, where I have already had backups for more than five years, and to add even more redundancy, I backed them up to BorgBase using Borgmatic.<p>De-Googled! Now all my photos and videos are in the palm of my hand (~238 GB).
My email client is not bloated. Well, assuming Apple doesn’t decide to shove AI down our throats in Apple Mail.<p>The only Google service I still pay for is YouTube. In exchange, I get zero unbearable ads, many of which promote illegal things like gambling websites. My ad blocker solves the problem on my computer, but on TV the situation is much harder, and I’m old enough to spend my time constantly finding ways around this stuff.