{"id":4743,"date":"2015-07-08T15:51:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2015-06-24T15:57:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T15:57:38","slug":"linked-why-not-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/linked-why-not-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Why not Google?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2015\/05\/29\/why-not-google\">via Marco:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>There\u2019s a widespread assumption that heavy use of Google products is unavoidable and that they\u2019re always the \u201cbest\u201d. That hasn\u2019t been my experience.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m still very happy with DuckDuckGo for search, and Apple Maps has been no worse than Google Maps for me recently. My standard IMAP email host, FastMail, works great, and the spam filtering is nearly perfect since I\u2019ve put MailRoute in front of it \u2014 I\u2019ve heard it\u2019s better than Gmail\u2019s.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m in complete agreement. The only Google service I still use..FeedBurner and Voice because there simply are no alternatives that are affordable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Marco: There\u2019s a widespread assumption that heavy use of Google products is unavoidable and that they\u2019re always&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:26:57Z","apple_news_api_id":"a3c5c95c-686e-4f51-bfeb-d96ef46f49eb","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:26:57Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ao8XJXGhuT1G_69lu9G9J6w","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1ev","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7399,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/04\/02\/linked-charles-proxy-for-ios\/","url_meta":{"origin":4743,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Charles Proxy for iOS&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"via: Michael Tsai - Blog - Charles Proxy for iOS: Just installed this, identified a few applications I never use that could safely be deleted Skype Meetup Google Maps Amazon Prime\u00a0 Outlook The only nosey application i\u2019m going to keep is Yelp. 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