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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

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🌎Google VPN

  1. Mullvad
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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

Saved! This is an excellent resource thanks so much

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't really recommend threema and would include SimpleX

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Where did you found that SimpleX was for profit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with threema?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm concerned about centralization the most.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

Oh? Self hosted music streaming? Thats neat as fucc

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bitwarden also makes an OTP authenticator app.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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

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

Vivaldi and brave are just chrome.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Floorp mentioned!

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

Alternative to google search engine, Kagi

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I’ve been looking at https://www.openphone.com/ as an alternative to Google Voice. It’s not free (but that may be a bonus), but it does let you port your GV number into their system.

$19/mo.

It’s the closest I’ve found to a replacement. I’d love to hear anyone else who uses something similar.

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

If you don't need the business features, I use jmp.chat for $5 a month.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Looks good! I’ll add it to the list. Google voice and google pay are by far the hardest to replace

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