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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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[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm curious as someone who has been increasingly getting annoyed by the Play Store. Has Aurora prevented you from doing anything that only the Play Store can do?

[–] rafssunny@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week 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 2 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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.