# Divorcing Google

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divorcing-google/944408>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 16, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divorcing-google/944408 "2021-06-16T16:27:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Ranch\_Dip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranch_dip/32/5238_2.png) [@Ranch\_Dip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranch_Dip)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divorcing-google/944408/61 "2021-06-22T22:27:10Z")

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I wonder if pulling the battery would be useful?

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divorcing-google/944408/62 "2021-06-22T22:27:55Z")

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What phones any more have pullable batteries? None of my Androids do. Apples famously don’t either.

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**Author:** ![Ranch\_Dip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranch_dip/32/5238_2.png) [@Ranch\_Dip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranch_Dip)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divorcing-google/944408/63 "2021-06-22T22:31:07Z")

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I _think_ my android can. It’s an S9 so not the most up to date. And also, I’m not really sure. I have a funky little key to get to the sim/memory slots. I don’t honestly know if the battery comes out? But what about letting the battery fully discharge?

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divorcing-google/944408/64 "2021-06-22T22:48:11Z")

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Seems to me that simply leaving it sitting at home plugged in and online is the same utility to you as carrying around an inert lump with a dead battery.

And results in the same tracking data.

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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divorcing-google/944408/65 "2021-06-23T03:32:28Z")

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I have used Firefox for ages. I like it. Your own ranking puts it at #1. I see no need to change.

Chrome is, by FAR, the most used browser out there so when I am working to see if our websites work I need to make 100% sure it works on Chrome (and Safari…#2).

I just have no need of Edge.

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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/divorcing-google/944408/66 "2021-06-27T20:59:03Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> I tried quitting Gmail once, but every other online mail service utterly sucked.

That’s how they get you, by providing a high quality product with the features you need.

Bastards!

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