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DeGoogle Yourself

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🔍 Google Search

  1. Leta  
  2. 4get
  3. Searxng
  4. Kagi

📧 Gmail

  1. ProtonMail  
  2. Tutanota  
  3. Mailbox  

🌐 Chrome

  1. Librewolf
  2. Brave Browser
  3. Mullvad Browser  
  4. Vivaldi - partially open source
  5. Floorp

📱 Android Custrom ROMS

  1. GrapheneOS
  2. Calyx 3. /e/OS

☁️ Google Drive

  1. Nextcloud (self hosted)
  2. Filen
  3. Syncthing
  4. Proton Drive

🗺️ Google Maps

  1. OSMAnd
  2. Mapy
  3. Organic Maps

📝 Google Docs / Sheets / Slides

  1. CryptPad
  2. LibreOffice
  3. OnlyOffice
  4. Collabra

📺 YouTube

  1. PeerTube
  2. Piped
  3. Indivious

📸 Google Photos

  1. Ente photos
  2. Nextcloud Photos
  3. Immich

🌐 Google Translate

  1. DeepL
  2. LibreTranslate

📅 Google Calendar

  1. Proton Calendar
  2. Nextcloud Calendar (self hosted)
  3. Tuta Calendar

📱 Google Play

  1. F‑Droid
  2. Aurora Store

🎥 Google Meet

  1. Jitsi Meet
  2. Nextcloud Talk
  3. Signal

🔐 Google Authenticator

  1. Ente auth
  2. andOTP
  3. Aegis Authenticator
  4. Bitwarden

note: do not use the same provider for password manager and authenticator

🗒️ Google Keep

  1. Standard Notes
  2. Joplin
  3. Notesnook

💬Google Messages

  1. Signal
  2. Theerma
  3. Session

⚙️ChromeOS

  1. Linux mint
  2. Debian
  3. PopOS

🗝️Google Passwords (baked into chrome)

  1. Bitwarden
  2. KeePass

📚Google books

  1. Libby

🎶YouTube Music

  1. Qobuz
  2. Tidal
  3. Deezer

🤖Gemini

  1. Duck.ai
  2. Le chat (opt out of data sending) - protected by eu privacy laws
  3. Ollama (self hosted)

🔍Lens Wip 🚧

💳Google pay Wip 🚧

✔️Google tasks

  1. Tasks.org

📰Google news

  1. Host your own rss feed reader eg Readrops

🧑‍🏫Google classroom Wip 🚧

🌎Google VPN

  1. Mullvad
  2. ProtonVPN - free plan
  3. IVPN

I am open to any suggestions or to add an services I missed! Suggestions are especially welcome on services with less than three current options

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[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't really recommend threema and would include SimpleX

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

As an email provider there is also posteo which is a nice email provider from germany that costs only 1 € a month. And with posteo and mailbox you can use 3rd party email clients which is not something you can do on proton or tuta.

Aren't Brave and Vivaldi supposed to have blue bullet instead of yellow?

[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago

Some of those suggestions are not exactly degoogling, in the strictest sense. If you're just going to keep using Google services but through a different frontend, you are not freeing yourself from Google.

That's not to say piped and invidious and Aurora and so on aren't worth using if you absolutely cannot wean yourself away from Google entirely. It's a step in the right direction, certainly.

Still, it might be nice to label those suggestions differently in a list like this, for clarity.

[–] beachsquid@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (6 children)

Any iOS alternative to Google Tasks?

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

After further inspection, I would recommend Joplin for most private

[–] beachsquid@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks for your tips :-) I have been trying both Anytype and Joplin, and might use either, but they seem to be primarly note apps not task/todo/reminder/list/priority apps.

Your first links looked interesting, so I will do some research on them.

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 1 points 12 hours ago

Would you be willing to pay? Some of the apps aren’t currently being developer unfortunately

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

Maybe anytype

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago

Maybe omni focus?

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago

Maybe a Joplin? Sorry this is a kinda half arsed andwer I’ll be back with a better one in a mo

[–] The_sleepy_woke_dialectic@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you're degoogling to reduce google's influence in the world, not just in your life, you should avoid chromium based browsers entirely. Google's chromium web rendering engine dominates most web traffic, and is squeezing out all alternatives. This leaves defining web standards in the hands of google pretty much exclusively. Vivaldi and Brave should be avoided for this reason. Brave founder Brendan Eich donates to funds seeking to undo gay marriage protections in the US and other reactionary causes, if that matters to you (it should).

[–] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)
[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Everything you need and more if you have a bit of time and an old laptop or two.

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Some of these you can use through public hosted servers too.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For those of you who want to dump music streaming entirely and go back to audio files Symphony is an open source music player on Android.

[–] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

another option if you want a hybrid is host a jellyfin instance with your music youbcan even install a lrclib plugin and get pretty good lyrics

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Oh? Self hosted music streaming? Thats neat as fucc

[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bitwarden also makes an OTP authenticator app.

[–] myrmidex@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It has TOTP built-in for paid accounts.

[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

I'm not paying them, and I have their authenticator app. It's a free download from the app store.

Most KeePass clients have built-in OTP support too. That being said I still prefer Aegis.

[–] Pherenike@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cryptpad for a Drive/Online Office Suite replacement, it's fantastic

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just started using this. It’s free (for a small amount of storage) and super private. Like so private that if you forget your password, your data is lost forever.

[–] gressen@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I like Firefox Sync. What are my options when moving to Librewolf?

[–] TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone please help me find a browser that has the Chromium gestures.

I want o be able to pull the URL bar down to go into the tab selection screen and pull the page down to refresh, and all the Firefox based browsers are so different it drives me crazy and I go back to chrome or brave.

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Brave I think If not then ungoogled chromium

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would it be better to replace Gemini with a local model run through ollama or something?

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, but unless you have god hardware it won’t be a direct replacement ):

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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[–] figurine8051@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Youtube alternatives invidious and piped really works dude ? I don't think so... youtube don't want users to watch it in a privacy focused way.

Peertube is awesome but without enough contents. Am just limited what to watch.

Quitting youtube is so hard because i even cared about my online privacy because of some privacy focused youtubers. And this youtubers too not leaving youtube or choosing peertube as an another playform to post contents.

Eg :- the hated one, mental outlaw, switched to linux,...

There are tons of foss services available but most of them are based on big tech. Am not saying it is bad, but how limited our options are...

[–] rosco385@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

I initially had problems with Piped, but I've been using PipePipe for ages and have never had an issue.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

I would add

  • Proton Drive
  • Proton Pass

To the Google Drive and Google Passwords areas.

Proton Drive also has the ability to view pictures it has backed up, but because everything is encrypted, they can't really sort them into buckets like you can with Google Photos.

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