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my degoogle and foss journey (lemmy.ml)
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I started in March this year, and so far these have been my changes:

  • Google Drive -> Filen.io
  • Google Photos -> EntePhotos
  • Google Gmail -> Proton (not 100% yet)
  • Google Translator -> Offline Translator and Mozhi
  • Google Maps -> CoMaps/OpenStreetMap
  • Google PlayStore -> AuroraStore / F-Droid
  • Google Search -> DuckDuckGo
  • Youtube -> Before PipePipe but now Morphe Youtube

And anothers changes outside of google:

  • ChatGpt -> Duck.ai
  • Spotify -> ArchiveTune
  • Chess.com -> LiChess
  • Netflix -> Jellyfin
  • GitHub -> Codeberg
  • Reddit -> Morphe Reddit and Lemmy
  • Twitter -> Mastodon and Bsky
  • I also stopped using Instagram and TikTok

its difficult to start, but the satisfaction afterwards is very good

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[–] rafssunny@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

no, my experience with the aurora store has been very good actually. I simply manage to download and update what I need, I dont see ads or a thousand useless buttons. the maximum that has already happened was some app refuse to run because of the absence of the playstore

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Right, that's what I was referring to; unfortunately, I'm heavily reliant on certain such apps... Thanks for the clarification.

[–] eodur@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, anything paid is going to be a problem. Or anything with in-app purchases. You could try setting up a work profile with G services and those remaining apps. That's what I do.

[–] solxix@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

I use microG and it supports in-app purchases well enough. I don't know if you can buy things in Aurora Store, but I do know that you're able to download apps you've previously bought on the play store before.