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[–] 41 points 6 days ago (15 children)

I don't even use google. We are not the same

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  • [–] 13 points 6 days ago (14 children)

    To search, no. But YouTube and Maps are hard to replace

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (12 children)

    Sometimes, sacrifices are necessary.

    I gave up social media over a decade ago, and after a few weeks forgot all about it. Found other ways to fill my down time.

    This past spring, dove into LineageOS, not using MicroG or anything. All FOSS or at least open source + Proton (along with SimpleLogin for aliases). No MS (besides work), no Google, no banking apps (use browser). Hell, I don't even have a SIM in my phone. I use jmp.chat (phone #) + Snikket (XMPP sever) and Cheogram (communication app for SMS and calls). Sure, explaining that sounds excessive, but to the average person, I've got 99%the same functionality everyone else does.

    I get no more spam calls, my battery lasts 2-4 days depending on usage, WAY less email, and I've not received any emails or alerts about data breaches (so far).

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (7 children)

    Lemmy isn't social media?

    I've tried alternatives to Maps but honestly nothing comes close.

    All bank accounts I have require a phone to log in.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (6 children)

    Lemmy is more like a large forum or series of forms. Most people are in communities because of common interest whereas social media is more like looking at people around you or whom you're friends with. It's also anonymous where SM is people standing on their little soap boxes subconsciously screaming, "look at me!".

    I'm not saying map replacements are phenomenal. But CoMaps is using Open Street Maps, and for my measly little area I contribute a lot of data because POI are lacking. But for most use cases, its perfectly capable.

    While yes, most/all banks require a phone number to login, they can't force you to use the app. My banks require phone numbers for the text verification. Better than nothing but still shitty MFA. So I login through the browser, not app, and I have a VoIP # for text verification codes to go to. Also, the browser UI is close enough to the mobile app it's easy enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    I tried CoMaps and on my first test I navigated to the airport and it says there's no metro connection (there is metro + bus). There's obviously no photos or reviews for anything neither.

    For banks, I have 2 that only work through the app, the others I could maybe set up to use SMS instead of the app, but then I wouldn't be able to use it when I'm traveling abroad

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    You can always fill your area in Comaps. The more people use and contribute the better for all.
    For me Comaps is enough. Before going somewhere new If i cant find it on OSM i search it online and add it

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    You can change the language by going into advanced tools but it's a bit buried because Google search fucking sucks now. The results will suck regardless of which language you choose. They show you what they want you to see, not what you are actually looking for.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    And it doesn't work half the time. I don't know how Google decided a profile that's been using English for thirty years suddenly really wanted to see everything in Swedish but it would NOT accept it without swapping to another server first.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 days ago (8 children)

    My current problem with Google (and a problem that I never thought I would have wtfuck) is when I watch some YouTube videos in French the AI auto translates the goddamn audio to English. I don't want an AI audio translation of the fucking audio and there is no way to set the default not to do that. I have to manually go into the video EVERY TIME IT DOES IT to put it back to the original sound. It'll create new audio but I can't get half the videos to show the in language subtitles for non-english videos. SO DUMB.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    This is one of the stupidest “features” in the history of computing. It’s like google doesn’t believe in bilingual people. “If you speak English, there’s no way you could also understand French!”

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    YouTube does not autotranslate for any language which is set in your Google profile. It's hidden as hell, but for me adding e.g. English there made all the English videos not being ai translated anymore.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago*

    If you're watching on mobile, YouTube Morphe has the option to disable the audio translation. You can even make a dedicated button for it in the player in case it gets toggled on again. The app also blocks ads and has SponsorBlock, DeArrow, and an AI slop filter built right in.

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    [–] 17 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    You use google

    I usw duckduckgo

    We are not the same

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago* (3 children)

    You use DuckDuckGo - I use SearXNG

    We are not the same

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    I feel this is a meme the average sketchy VPN company would share in their social media to catch users.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 days ago

    Because even for that multi billion dollar company their developers still don't understand that country isn't equal to language preference. This has been an issue since the 90's that still isn't solved.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago

    You understood it wrong. The setting is in the browser itself. Just use anything except google. Maybe one day they will see the 0.001% dip in search and change it

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    Some streaming services only offer translation subtitles related to the primary language of where you are.

    So if I'm in Germany and want to watch a Swedish crime drama all i can get are German subs.

    But if i use a vpn to say I'm in England... the English subs are magically available.

    (Provided they also have the license to play the show in England).

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Click on your profile bubble. On Mobile it's in the top right hand corner. Go to settings. Go to other settings. Language and region can be set manually.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Language and region can be set manually.

    But not separately. You can't have the interface in English while on a non English speaking region.

    And you can only set one language / region. I'm interested in results in a number of languages (ordered by priority), untranslated unless I fucking ask for a translation, and from a number of possibly unrelated regions (also ordered by priority).

    And my region / language isn't an option anyway, so it's either the wrong, English speaking, region, or the closest region but the wrong language.

    The whole concept is so profoundly imperialist and ignorant it makes me sick. Whoever perpetrated it is so tragically miseducated they can't even conceive the notion that their users might be able to understand more than one language, or be interested in more than one culture or region.

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    I download all my podcasts with the VPN on my phone set to France or Ireland. The ads are adorably useless and a pleasure to hear.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    Seems like a good workaround. Why is the superior tone necessary?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    You still use google?

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