My Year Without Google

An ongoing effort to live without the ubiquitous tools of the search giant shows that it’s possible — and even necessary — to find alternatives to big tech

Nithin Coca
OneZero
Published in
8 min readSep 4, 2019

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A suite of Google apps are seen on a smartphone display.
Photo: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty

18 months ago I went on a quest: to quit, entirely, using all the products of just one company — Google. It should have been a simple task, but instead it took me six…

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Nithin Coca
OneZero

Global journalist covering politics, environment, human rights & the social impacts of tech for OneZero, Gizmodo, The Nation and more www.nithincoca.com/writer