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?

  • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    14 hours ago

    Been degoogled for years at this point:

    • Stock Android --> LineageOS or GrapheneOS (no gapps)
    • YouTube --> Invidious*, NewPipe
    • Google Search --> DuckDuckGo, Brave Search
    • Google Play Store --> F-Droid, Aurora Store

    I’ve also decoupled from other similar services:

    • Outlook --> ProtonMail
    • Calendar --> Nextcloud*
    • OneDrive --> Nextcloud*
    • Windows, macOS --> Linux (after years of distrohopping, I found LMDE is incredibly stable while still being a nice “out of box” distro)
    • Google Maps, Apple Maps --> OSMAnd, Organic Maps

    I never used any online password manager myself, I went from writing passwords in a literal book to KeePass, to now Vaultwarden* for that

    * - self hosted

    • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Nice, I have also chosen most of the same as you. For custom ROM there’s CalyxOS, which ironically makes a Pixel phone one of the best picks for deGoogleing
      I don’t like the proprietary style of Proton Mail, plus they charge to have more than one account logged in, which is very inconvenient, so I set up my own Mailcow instance

      For YouTube I highly recommend ReVanced

      For notes I use Apache-CouchDB and connect using Obsidian with the LiveSync plugin. Live sync is fantastic and is as close as I think I’ll ever get to OneNote.

      NextCloud is great, a pain in the arse to add existing files as you need to upload everything, but a few hours of uploading with Cloudflare set to DNS only is fine