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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] 22 points 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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] 14 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

Oh? Self hosted music streaming? Thats neat as fucc

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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

Threema (not Therma)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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

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

Floorp mentioned!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Alternative to google search engine, Kagi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Vivaldi and brave are just chrome.

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

Wouldn't really recommend threema and would include SimpleX

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

Saved! This is an excellent resource thanks so much

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

The only thing I use Google Voice for is being able to reply to text messages on a browser. Is there something I can use for that?

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

Can anyone vouch for this? Is it open source? What is it’s privacy policy

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

Might also add Collabora, it's libreoffice, but allows online collaboration and has the nicest integration into nextcloud, imo.

[–] Jason2357 7 points 2 months ago

Nextcloud paired with Collabora is awesome! (Might be just be called "Nextcloud Office" depending on how it's packaged up, but it's the same thing). With Google Docs, you have drive, but the "files" it syncs for your Google Docs documents are just links to open Google Docs in a web browser, you need to manually export them if you want real files. With Nextcloud/Collabora, you literally have .odt or .docx files synced to your computer, but you can open them online with Collabora and have a full "google docs" or better collaborative online interface. Make a change, and the .odt file on your hard drive changes. You can work or collaborate in Word, Libreoffice, or in the web browser with Collabora on the same files (synchronously, only with the latter, but asynchronously with any of them - with the obvious caveat that slight formatting differences will always happen with different applications so keep your collaborative documents simple). It's brilliant, and the interface is more feature-full than google docs too.

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

For news/RSS feed I've been using Readrops that is available in Fdroid https://f-droid.org/packages/com.readrops.app

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

I've been using Feeder for RSS and am fairly happy.

I wish there was a way to group articles by topic. At the moment I have to scroll through pages of articles about the Pope's death.

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