• Reannlegge@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    I would hate that for whatever service that is for, the only Google service I knowingly use is Youtube. I host my own DNS via pihole, my own search engine via searXNG last night and this morning when my firewall was acting up I accidentally pinged 8.8.8.8 a few times rather than my normal 9.9.9.9. If cira had some easy to remember pinging address I would be using them instead.

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      12 hours ago

      I would hate that for whatever service that is for,

      It’s the provincial governments authentication service for Canadians, if you ever used GCKey it’s essentially the same thing but provincial opposed to federal.

      It allows ease of access to things like medical records, tax records, license renewals and such.

      Alberta has their own system similar to this.


      the only Google service I knowingly use is Youtube

      Might I suggest Invidious as an alternative, you can host your own that way only 1 device on your network needs to contact YouTube directly or you can use one that is public.

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        7 hours ago

        Might I suggest Invidious as an alternative, you can host your own that way only 1 device on your network needs to contact YouTube directly or you can use one that is public.

        I sadly am on a iPad and iPhone, but I do use the app Unwatched that blocks youtube ads. I have tried setting up invidous but I some how always seem to mess it up The Google knows what I have watched on Youtube and that is it. I use pihole to block a lot of the tracking and I have my own email setup so that every time I need to hand out an email it is a new one. I was with hosthero but they have no wild card emails and I could not add A records, or it was very hard don’t remember or care, I am now with easyDNS and wish I started with them as they have everything I was looking for without CPannel!