DeGoogle Yourself

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my degoogle and foss journey (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by rafssunny@lemmy.zip to c/degoogle@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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[–] SamuelEllis@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Swapping to self-hosted instances like Jellyfin and Lemmy significantly reduces your attack surface and eliminates reliance on third-party data brokers. Have you considered how federated identity protocols or local authentication methods could further decouple your accounts from centralized credential stores?