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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This really could use some clarification on what category these belong to. Most of these projects are open source projects where you can either self-host the tool, or choose from one of many free or paid instances online. If someone lacks the technical skill, hardware, or time to self-host, they should shop around. Often there is an "official" instance by the developers, but that's not always the best option. Sometimes a paid option with more resources is going to be more stable and performant.

Other suggestions are individual companies services, and a couple of these are just applications you install on your device. It would be helpful to readers to clarify.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Feel free to do it yourself

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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).

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh? Self hosted music streaming? Thats neat as fucc

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Bitwarden also makes an OTP authenticator app.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Floorp mentioned!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Alternative to google search engine, Kagi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Vivaldi and brave are just chrome.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Wouldn't really recommend threema and would include SimpleX

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks 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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Saved! This is an excellent resource thanks so much

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nice. Notesnook is great for sync between pc and phone, but I don't know the others. Thanks!

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