Google is watching you in fact they even got sued for doing it while you were in incognito mode but little things like law suits aren't going to stop them from doing it again they make more than enough money by serving you early relevant ads to make up for any fines so if nothing's going to stop them well you should just give up and throw in the towel right of course not in part one of this series on deg Googling your life we showed you some options to loosen Google's iron grip some of which you could argue are even Superior to Google services and we're back again with degoogle options for password management cloud storage Maps ad management and YouTube that's right five whole ways that you can give Google the finger or six fingers if you count our sponsor flexispot their E7 plus standing desk and C7 Ergo chair are here to elevate your workspace save big by bundling them together then use code Linus 50 for $50 off your order of $500 or more check it out using our Link in the video description one of the most convenient Services Google offers that you might not even think about that you're using is also one of the most dangerous the password manager that is built into to Chrome and Android I mean it's great on the surface you just log into your Google account and the passwords for other sites fill in automatically everywhere you go super convenient but what happens if somebody gets into your Google account not only will all of your Google services be accessible because they all use that one login but all of the accounts stored inside it will be exposed too it's kind of like a 200 for the price of one special for account hijackers now I get if you still want to have a Google account that's totally fine but you can lower your risk by using a non-google password manager of course it feels these days like everybody has a password manager so which one do you trust well the ultimate in privacy is going to be hosting your own on a computer that new control using keypass or bit Wen both of them have been around for a while are open source and work on pretty much anything keypass is single device only but bit Warden can even sync across multiple devices and if you want it can sync to the cloud as well if you're doing that you might also want to consider the competition for a mainstream choice we like one password not only does it tick all of the boxes with support for every big operating system Pass Key support two Factor codes for secure loog and more it also has its own twist that even if one password were to suffer a major leak like what happened to last pass in 2022 there wouldn't be any danger when you sign up you're given a random secret code and that code with your password is needed to unlock your Vault anytime you log in on a new device what that means is even if somebody got your login credentials and even if they had the file with your vault in it they can't easily decrypt your data at least with today's computers their app is pretty good too moving on proton the Google butt for privacy company that we brought up in part one also offers a password manager that's gotten really good and really quickly it has support for making burner emails or aliases two Factor support Pass Key support and it very recently gains the ability to lock your Vault with a different password from your account password meaning even if you're logged into your proton account your passwords are still safe if say a nosy family member decides to look through your computer now the fine details vary so you're going to want to try a couple of them before you settle but the way that they work is pretty similar across the board you download the app or browser extension create an account and start storing your passwords with the appropriate permissions configured on your device just like Google's password manager they should automatically detect when you log into a new website or app and offer to store your credentials most of them also offer to create random passwords for you so you don't even have to think about what to use use once you've decided on one you like you're going to need to export your passwords from your old basic manager and I'm going to assume it's Google passwords here open it up click the settings gear then click export you'll get a CSV file that you can then import to the password manager of your choice for one password you would go to your account settings then click your name in the top right then import click either CSV file or a different password manager choose the Vault that you want to put your passwords into then drop the CSV into the upload box and click continue you can pick and choose what to carry over if you want and when you're done you can apply your labels the process is pretty much the same for the other password managers out there and most of them are going to have a page like one passwords with the steps that you need to follow no matter what you go with to manage passwords though a two-factor app that gives you login codes is a must it is much more secure than getting these codes via email or especially Via SMS now most password managers these days have two-factor Port built in which is convenient but that convenience of having everything in one place comes with the risk of having everything in one place and we would strongly recommend a separate app but again though which one our main pick is ente off yeah the same ente as in part one it works everywhere and can either be used in the cloud with end to-end encryption or on a single device without the need for an account ent's UI is well thought out and easy to use plus it even shows you the next code if the current one is about to expire so you don't have to wait for it to roll over before you start typing you can even pin tag and search your sites which makes it a lot easier to manage a big list compared to Google Authenticator they call it a labor of love on their GitHub page and it really looks like one aie is another okay Choice with a pleasing look and feel but compared to ente it offers only basic search which is fine for a lot of people but there are a couple of things to watch out for their desktop app is no longer supported as of March and your account login is tied to your phone number by default so if you change your number you will need to make sure that you update it or you can end up locked out of your account the good news is that recovering your account only takes a few days if that happens and there's not a major security implication to this because if someone gets access to your phone number they would also need your backup password in order to get your codes now if you want to use something other than those two options that's probably fine just make sure that it's encrypted and secure if it synchronizes across devices or that it never leaves your phone whatever you use the way to add codes is pretty much the same go to the site or app you want to secure enable two Factor authentication then on your app tap add and scan the QR code enter the code the app gives you into the site and you should be good to go just please make sure you put your recovery codes somewhere safe and not in your password manager if you can avoid it if you can't scan the QR Code by the way for some reason most sites and apps will let you manually type a secret key instead now migrating from Google Authenticator is a little tricky but not too bad you can export your codes as QR codes by tapping the hamburger menu then transfer accounts then export select the accounts you want to transfer and you'll get a series of QR codes at this point though you will need another device with a camera that is logged in with the authenticator that you want to use use and then you can use the import function in antio you get there by tapping the hamburger menu then data then import codes choose Google Authenticator then scan the codes one by one yeah it's a bit of a pain because Google expects you to only ever do this if you're upgrading to a new device but once it's done it's done and you're free free to go anywhere you like as long as you don't mind big Google following you around that's right Google Maps is so do that when Apple Maps came out in 2012 many people considered it literally unusable in spite of Apple's efforts because of how poorly it compared to Google's worldwide Fleet of vehicles that Maps out the roads and takes photos as they go now one popular alternative used to be ways but that has also been owned by Google since 2013 Apple Maps speaking of finally launched a web app it went into beta actually the day that we wrote this and or even Map Quest can stand in for Google Maps in a pinch but in the spirit of deg Googling we kind of wanted to find something a little more open like open street map which makes maps from user submissions and has support for front ends that include some pretty Advanced features magic Earth for example is available on IOS and Android and on top of offering turn-by-turn navigation and crowdsourced traffic data it can also act as a smart dash cam with driver assistance to warn of things like like forward Collision stop and go traffic lane departure traffic signs and more now you probably don't want to rely on those features for safety and we did encounter some odd behavior even just in the basic search functionality but it's free for personal use so I'd say it's at least worth giving it a try and the same goes for oand it has many of the features that magic Earth does but also offers plugins to enhance its functions Beyond even Google Maps the only problem is that what I would call 1864 3 52 Avenue becomes 52 Avenue 18643 Euro style and I'm not allowed to just type in a it has to be Avenue look you can learn to live with it but I can also see why most North Americans don't bother one last option is to use a search engine like Duck ducko or kogi who we talked about in part one both use Apple Maps though kogi offers other sources too and while neither has the features or tight integration Google does kogi offers the option to start navigating via Google maps Apple Maps or ways so that you can I don't know use Ki to search and then just use Google to okay maybe it's mostly only useful for trip planning rather than day-to-day navigation now for a big one Google Drive is so common for cloud storage that for a long time we even used Google's LAX storage limits to back up our entire petabyte server it's convenient especially to quickly share files and their privacy policy claims that they encrypt your data and don't use it for advertising so a secondary Google account just for Drive could be an option if you don't mind some Google in your life you know like a cheat day we are de Googling and that means exploring other options there's the big ones like Dropbox iCloud drive and one drive who all also offer encrypted storage and even extras like protected vaults that require a password to access but if your email is also with the company you're using for storage you need to be careful what you store there in case of a data breach one way that you can make sure that you're secure is to encrypt your files locally on your computer using something like cryptomator then you can sync those files to any cloud storage you like though you won't be able to easily share anything uploaded this way unless you also share your encryption key if you want something a little different then there are other options like Proton Drive we mentioned these guys earlier and in part one with their email service and while keeping all of our eggs in one basket is one of the reasons that we're skipping out on Google proton offers the ability to use a secondary password to unlock your data after logging in again to prevent someone with access to your computer from digging through your stuff proton's biggest problem though is that you can't purchase more storage than they offer in their plans and if you're not on a family plan that limits you to just 500 gigs even at the ultimate tier now they do sometimes allow you to upgrade to their older Visionary plan that gives you multiple terabytes of storage but you're forced to subscribe on an annual basis for a pretty hefty sum still if you're not backing up massive amounts of data Proton Drive is very Google like but not run by Google of course it's not run by you either is it and if you've got the hardware to run it whether it's a spare or dedicated that's where oncloud and next Cloud come in both of these will need you to forward ports on your router or install a remote network access app like tail scale in order to access or share your files away from home but for your trouble you get way more control than you do with a cloud storage company both of them are free to download open-source software with paid extras oncloud is tuned more for our professional setting with teams while nextcloud has a host of features that might appeal more to home users including a traz plugin that makes it easier to set up on a network storage PC that you might already be running the last big Drive alternative we'll talk about is the Swiss post Services treaser it it's favored by governments and NOS for its strong privacy and security making it a great choice for the paranoid and on top of that it's actually a pretty good service in its own right it even provides a plugin if you want to stick to using Gmail and has apps for every major OS even a Linux terminal app for your Nas the files you upload and share are endtoend encrypted and if you're extra paranoid you can also require the person on the other end to verify their email address before they're allowed to download it all of this comes at a cost though with the free version only providing 3 GB of total storage and the biggest package coming in at 4 tabt and costing significantly more than Google's options though I guess you get what you pay for now speaking of paying for things I've made my position clear that the ads on ad supported content are the price and that blocking them is pretty much piracy but I've also made it many times that I'm not going to tell you what you should do and the reality of it is a lot of you are going to Pirate so as your friendly neighborhood Tech tips man it's my responsibility to show you the right way to do it starting with DNS we talked about DNS in part one and several services offer the ability to add content filters to their responses these are great for apps that normally wouldn't be able to use ad block and they can even block ads in mobile apps again you can learn more about that in part one which will link down below the problem with these Services is that they limit the number of lookups that you get per month and after that you've got to pay that's where py hole comes in py hole lets you run your own DNS filter at home using whichever servers you like not just those filtering ones and it's pretty straightforward to set up we did a whole video on it a few years ago and I'm just going to link that down below since it really hasn't changed much so once you've got it set up just make sure you don't forget the step to adjust your router settings both both so that your pie hole has a reserved IP address that doesn't change and to make sure that that address is the DNS server that your router points all the devices on your network to as for ad blocking on the web if you're running Brave one of the browsers that we featured last time the built-in Shields feature is pretty decent and I would probably just stick with that since anything else is going to make you stand out like a sore thumb among Brave users making you much easier to identify and track even if you're using a VPN for everyone else you block Origins seems to be by far the best option these days it offers a default filter that will block most ads on the internet and that allows you to manually allow content from ad delivery networks or domains that you trust or want to support you can use custom filters to find tune your experience just be aware that adding too many filters can actually slow down your browser rather than speed it up so try not to overdo it another cool function of ublock origin is that it can handle JavaScript blocking which can reduce your computer's chance of getting infected with malware ublock origin is available for desktop browsers based on chromium or Firefox that can accept extensions and it can be installed manually if you're not able to use their extension stores for some reason or another it should be noted though that by this time in 2025 manifest v3's requirements are going to break it for browsers based on chromium if nothing changes in that case then there's U block light which has the core feature of blocking ads with Filter lists but doesn't offer the ability to choose for example whether and when to enable JavaScript on a given site desktop Safari users meanwhile basically just have access to the extensions that are available in the App Store just like on mobile so for them I'd say adguard is a pretty good choice for both it can do a lot of the basic things that ublock light does but with some extra customizations available just remember to enable it in the extension section under Safari settings menu and allow it to access all Sites now since some schools and workplaces have rules against installing ad blockers you may not be able to do so the good news is you can get most of the way there by disabling JavaScript on your browser here then as you find sites that need it you can allow them one by one like this it is an extra step but doing this can even get you past some pay walls and speed up your browser while also removing one of the common ways that malware can get into your system and one of the common ways that Google Tracks you online now for the big one the site that you are almost certainly using right now YouTube One Way Out is to hope that your favorite creators are using some alternative video hosting site sup flow planers woo but let's be realistic most creators aren't and even if they were most of their viewers aren't going to follow them there so what do you do well one option is to download videos using one of these tools and watch them offline you'd still have to browse YouTube to discuss discover content though which would give Google lots of Juicy information about your preferences so how about an app like FreeTube Li tube or yati these apps hook into YouTube for real Z's get around the almighty algorithm do not display Google's ads or trackers and if you import your subscriptions by using Google take out you might even get notified when there are new videos on your feed now importing from Google take out sounds hard but it's actually pretty easy just log into your Google Account dashboard go to data and privacy then scroll down to download your data and choose what you'd like to export in this case you would deselect all then check YouTube and YouTube music click the all YouTube data included link and select only what you want to download for these apps all we need are the history and subscriptions and history is actually optional if you do want it just make sure you go to multiple formats and choose Json for history once you're satisfied click next optionally choose to have this data EXP orted periodically or just once then click create export depending on the amount of data it could take some time but eventually you'll get an email with a download link you can then unzip it and import everything into your front end in free tube you'll find it under data settings for Android users there's gray J and new pipe they hook into popular streaming services including YouTube with plug-in support that promises to add even more services in the future everything shows up on your feed and they store your playback history subscriptions and your playlists locally on your phone or tablet there's no iOS or desktop app for either though and according to the FAQ there isn't going to be one anytime soon if that's a problem for you you can also just run your own YouTube using invidious which lets you fully customize the way that Pages look if you know how you can even use those other apps with it now like the cir search engine from part one public Nvidia servers do exist but using them means that you are trusting that the people running them aren't just going to track you like Google do or even insert malware for that reason it's best to use tour or a virtual private Network like our frequent sponsor piia who we're going to have linked down below to hide your IP address whenever you're connecting to servers that you don't own since the ones listed on the Nvidia site must have no analytics that makes one fewer way that you can be tracked online however these servers are not guaranteed to be as reliable as YouTubes I mean say whatever you want about YouTube it rarely goes down but what if there were another way okay this is funny as it turns out you don't need anything extra or any weird workarounds to watch YouTube without ads and I'm not kidding when I say this is actually a weird trick try this right now open up a private window or a browser that you don't use very much and then go to Bing copy the address of this video right now and paste it into Bing then click on the thumbnail somewhere around here and what what where's the ad you're not signed into Bing or YouTube and assuming you used a random browser that you don't usually use you've got no ad block active so yeah you need to put up with Bing's crummy interface but either Microsoft is paying Google to be able to show YouTube videos on Bing without any ads or maybe neither of them ever noticed because no one uses Bing either way I don't know free YouTube premium let's go Bing all right that's not really a reasonable alternative to YouTube and like those alternative front ends and those apps it's just YouTube with extra steps still and if Google decides to get rid of them they will all disappear but for now we've at least given you some options to enjoy your favorite creators without giving Google quite as much information of course we aren't done yet and for part three we'd like to hear from you guys what services do you recommend what Google services do you want to stop using let us know down below while I let you know about our sponsor flexi spot if you're looking to elevate your work setup from that desk and chair that you picked up at your neighbor's garage sale flexi spot is here to help their E7 plus standing desk has a four-leg foundation making it more stable than two-leg offerings plus it has a weight capacity of up to 440 lb while in motion meaning you can absolutely load up your desk with the chunkiest of monitors peripherals and more and if you're worried that your tush isn't going to be fully supported have no fear their C7 Ergo chair is designed to relieve pressure and mitigate fatigue during long hours of work 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