Reasons Not to Use Google

I feel like it's a long list of fairly standard complaints about Google, when really the objection could just be "the server-side code is non-free". For example, He spends a lot of time talking about the You Tube JavaScript code, while not talking about the You Tube server code. Which seems backwards to me. It seems to me that the JavaScript part, while not licensed, is closer to free software (you can read it etc) than the server side. The…

>In general, most Google services require running nonfree Javascript code. If you refuse to run that (for instance, by running LibreJS), you'll see that you should not use those services. Well, I use Google Maps just about every single day so Stallman's advice banning Javascript is way too hardcore for me. But for sake of discussion, let's entertain what he's suggesting. What are the most practical alternatives to avoid Google's Javascript maps in 2019? - other websites like Bing Maps…

At some point I realized I have more than enough local disk space to maintain and run my own local search engine. So I have been saving and indexing every page of my browsing history and bookmarks for the past 3-4 years. I have a local copy of wikipedia/stackoverflow and offline docs via Zeal. The only time I need google these days is for casual map location/distance queries. I am too lazy to type out the details of my setup…