Look, I'm waving: π
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
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Google can go fuck itself with a rusty rake, I'm not doing that.
PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN
Yeah, thereβs no way Iβm giving Google access to my camera.
Nuh-uh, not happening.
Do rude gestures count? Thereβs no way Iβm giving anything google-related access to my camera.
It'd detect profanity and reject scanning it further, because there could be children watching your verification clip. Then the whole thing would be given to an Indonesian bloke to review instead
You might. I sure as shit won't be. I am finally free of everything google (except it somewhere in my backend via searxng). I have liberated my phone, my files, my email, everything. I am google free and fuck it feels good.
I need to de-google but it seems exhausting. I've had Gmail since like 2006 and everything in Drive and Photos.
Yeah I did it slowly over a period of time. I started with learning self hosting and moving over files with next cloud. Then got Immich for my photos. Changing over email was a huge pain in the ass tho even tho their wasn't much I actually used so killed hundreds of linked accounts and set up forwarding rules for anyone in my contacts. As been running GrapheneOS for a while so had already killed most apps that needed play services and sandboxed the rest. Would recommend comaps for navigation its good but lacks address numbers and a lot of places (at least here in Australia).
It's a pain but the feeling of true digital sovereignty is amazing.
I hardly ever read websites anymore. My AI agent does that for me. Running an openweight model with a custom lora finetune on my own hardware. But yeah I would encounter recaptch on various sites I need to navigate myself like portals and such.