Just a heads-up: Waze is owned by Google [1] now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze#Google_subsidiary

Waze was recommended by family for a trip to Israel.

The good news: Available for Windows Phone (which I had at that time)

The bad news: In order to use it access to my address book.

For a navigation app?

WHAT THE FUCK!

Peeves me that in order to control Spotify from Waze I have to agree to share my Waze location data w/ Spotify...

I really wish we had regulations that limited companies from blocking functionality behind data-walls.

probably to suggest destinations

That would be true if it was optional, not required.

You've certainly reduced your Google footprint. I don't think it's possible to reduce it to zero though.

What do you do about websites that use reCaptcha?

good point... browse in private mode by default, and with a VPN (which by the way means that I solve a lot of captchas :-/ )

You're likely not at all living "Google free". https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-out-of-my-life-it-screwed-u...

This was a great article. I found the one on the author attempting to cut Amazon out of her life even more interesting:

https://gizmodo.com/i-tried-to-block-amazon-from-my-life-it-...

It's next to impossible. Maybe one day our antitrust laws (and the rest of our laws I suppose) will catch up to the world we're living in.

Informative, thanks.

Hmmmm, Uber, Lyft, and Dropbox - I avoid those, too.