So things like what is the capital of Zimbabwe, convert 43 yards to meters, convert 30RMB to CAD etc. Unless I’m doing research, I’m mostly Googling quick information that I needed. Okay now for Google search, the way I reduced my reliance is by pinpointing my main reasons for making Google searches to begin with. Instead of YouTube, I downloaded Youku and started watching Chinese cartoons - I’m here to learn mandarin after all. Instead of maps - for better or worse - I used Apple maps. Instead of Gmail I opened an outlook account and forwarded emails from Gmail to it (this happens automatically and is unaffected by China’s Great Firewall).
ACCIDENTALLY DELETED ASTRILL APP FREE
So instead of Google drive I started using Baidu cloud (which at the time gave me 1TB free storage!!). Everything from Google search, drive, Gmail and maps I relied on heavily back in Canada.
To avoid using fb messenger as much as possible, I made my close friends get Wechat or Whatsapp (those who didn’t I no longer contacted regularly).īut the most difficult thing to comply with is not using Google apps. I stopped reading Reddit, stopped browsing on Instagram and stopped watching snapchats. So I deleted these apps, all of them, including my one true love - YouTube. That is to completely stop using these social media sites. But this presented me with an opportunity to do something I’ve thought about for a long time but never actually done. Snapchat would never work for me even after getting a good (paid) VPN service. When I first arrived here last year, it only took me a week to start pulling my hair out whenever I’d access social media sites like Facebook and Instagram. On the other hand, using Chinese sites and apps is super-fast and convenient. On one hand, the experience of accessing western sites and especially western sites that are blocked (Facebook, Google, Reddit etc.) is dreadful. Then you learn to have a love-hate relationship with it like I do. It sucks for a long time, and then it starts sucking less. The Golden Shield Project (A.K.A China’s Great Firewall)
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