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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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[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 day ago

Saved! This is an excellent resource thanks so much

[–] Khlo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is Cryptpad really the best docs alternative? I'm looking for something to replace docs, it's one of the last things I need to degoogle.

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

I tried it and it’s pretty good. I don’t know about storage limits or anything like that, but it gets the job done.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't really recommend threema and would include SimpleX

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why not?

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Based around a company

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, Simplex is also a for-profit company. However, it's at least decentralized and more open, I'd take it over Threema any day.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Where did you found that SimpleX was for profit?

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with threema?

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm concerned about centralization the most.

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but how is signal any less centralised?

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 4 days ago

Signal isn't, and that's one of mine (and a lot of other people's) main gripes with it.

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

Any iOS alternative to Google Tasks?

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

Maybe anytype

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

After further inspection, I would recommend Joplin for most private

[–] beachsquid@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 6 days ago

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

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Maybe omni focus?

[–] lopar49@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days 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 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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).

[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week 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.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 13 points 1 week 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 6 days 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 3 points 6 days ago

Oh? Self hosted music streaming? Thats neat as fucc

[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bitwarden also makes an OTP authenticator app.

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[–] Pherenike@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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

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

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[–] Nonbinary_Sahrah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week 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.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Threema (not Therma)

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[–] slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

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