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DeGoogle Yourself

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I'm slowly ditching Google lately. Always on the lookout for better options, so lemme know what you're using! πŸ‘Œ

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 2 days ago (19 children)

The graphic format doesn't do much for those looking to learn, if I don't already know the non-google icon or app this doesn't help. I understand the point of the post is to drive discussion but if the whole broader goal is to help people switch listing it out in text or labeling the icons at least would make it as useful as the other breakdowns we often see here that have lists by app/category are more useful.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (18 children)

Can anyone here legit write a list for that for me please (β—•β€Ώβ—•)?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (14 children)

My bad.

Gmail -> Proton Mail
Chrome -> Fennec (Firefox fork)
Google Photos -> Immich (Self Hosted)
Google Calendar -> TickTick
Google Drive -> Filen
YouTube -> YouTube Revanced
WhatsApp -> Nekogram (Telegram fork)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Instead of using YouTube, use PeerTube

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

You can't really replace YouTube's massive library yourself, the best you can do is avoid it but that's hard too. As for the frontend, there is

  • NewPipe/Tubular (Android, also supports Peertube, media.ccc.de, SoundCloud, Bandcamp)
  • Piped (web, very privacy-friendly)
  • Grayjay (Android and desktop, partially open source, support for many services including PeerTube and Odysee, $10 or guilt-tripping infinite free trial)
  • Revanced as mentioned above
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I can recommend TubeSync, it’s a self hosted service to schedule regular download of selected content from YouTube. You can integrate it easily with Plex

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