Right now a lot of us are trying to divest and diversify from having our entire lives on Google both because of the way Google spends its money and the long-standing privacy concerns seeming a bit more scary now.

What services have you switched to and what has your experience been? What do you like, what don’t you like, would you recommend them?

  • UltraMasculine@sopuli.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    If I remember correctly I started deGoogling “seriously” in the last summer. At this point YouTube and Youtube Music are the only Google products/services I still use daily but only on PC. I never use them on phone. I also am quite forced to use Gmail sometimes but otherwise I avoid it like a plague.

    I think my phone is as deGoogled as possible without rooting and/or changing the OS. I have uninstalled every Google app that I have been able to uninstall and also I have disabled every Google service that is possible to disable. I still have to deMicrosoft my PC. I want to move to Linux but I have understood that there’s some compatibility issues with Reaper and virtual instruments. That’s the only reason I haven’t done it yet.

    Anyway. Here is a list of apps/services I use instead of Google’s sh*t:

    • Browser: Waterfox on PC and Ironfox on phone (of course both with uBlock Origin)
    • Cloud storage: Proton Drive
    • Email: Proton Mail
    • Calendar: Proton Calendar
    • Authenticator: Aegis
    • Map: OsmAnd
    • Search engine: DuckDuckGo and Brave Search
    • Play Store: Droid-ify and Aurora Store (not signed in)
    • Speech Recognition & Synthesis: SherpaTTS
    • Find My Device: FindMyDevice (FOSS)

    I think that’s all. There’s some other FOSS apps and services that I use but they are not exactly replacements for Google’s sh*t.