{"id":17204,"date":"2015-08-31T20:14:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T18:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/?p=17204"},"modified":"2020-10-05T12:50:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T12:50:50","slug":"network-world-kicking-google-out-of-my-life-part-8-will-i-ever-go-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/blogs\/network-world-kicking-google-out-of-my-life-part-8-will-i-ever-go-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Network World: Kicking Google out of my life, Part 8: Will I ever go back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/2942161\/opensource-subnet\/kicking-google-out-of-my-life-part-4-goodbye-gmail.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">left Gmail<\/a>\u00a0and began using Kolab Now during this wacky little experiment. You know what? I have no intention on returning to Gmail. Even though Kolab Now is a paid service, I find it to be well worth the few dollars I pay per month. The simple fact that I am not being advertised to (and my data is not being indexed for marketing purposes) is well worth the price. But the fact that Kolab Now is such a great member of the Open Source community \u2013 in addition to providing an excellent service \u2013 has convinced me. I\u2019m staying there and leaving Google-provided email behind for good.<\/p>\n<p>Docs and Drive are a similar story.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/2946696\/opensource-subnet\/kicking-google-out-of-my-life-part-5-replacing-google-docs-and-drive.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I left those<\/a>\u00a0in favor of an OwnCloud-based system. I love it. It hasn\u2019t been a perfect transition \u2013 I hit a few bugs in file syncing along the way \u2013 but the good outweighed the bad by a huge margin. I now have control over my own files and have far more flexibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0left Gmail\u00a0and began using Kolab Now during this wacky little experiment. You know what? I have no intention on returning to Gmail. Even though Kolab Now is a paid service, I find it to be well worth the few dollars I pay per month. The simple fact that I am not being advertised to (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owncloud-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}