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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] 0 points 1 week ago

Ecosia Browser

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

This really could use some clarification on what category these belong to. Most of these projects are open source projects where you can either self-host the tool, or choose from one of many free or paid instances online. If someone lacks the technical skill, hardware, or time to self-host, they should shop around. Often there is an "official" instance by the developers, but that's not always the best option. Sometimes a paid option with more resources is going to be more stable and performant.

Other suggestions are individual companies services, and a couple of these are just applications you install on your device. It would be helpful to readers to clarify.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Feel free to do it yourself

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

Saved! This is an excellent resource thanks so much

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

Wouldn't really recommend threema and would include SimpleX

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why not?

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

Based around a company

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Any iOS alternative to Google Tasks?

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

Maybe anytype

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

After further inspection, I would recommend Joplin for most private

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

Thanks for your tips :-) I have been trying both Anytype and Joplin, and might use either, but they seem to be primarly note apps not task/todo/reminder/list/priority apps.

Your first links looked interesting, so I will do some research on them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Would you be willing to pay? Some of the apps aren’t currently being developer unfortunately

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

Maybe omni focus?

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

Maybe a Joplin? Sorry this is a kinda half arsed andwer I’ll be back with a better one in a mo

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

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

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

Someone please help me find a browser that has the Chromium gestures.

I want o be able to pull the URL bar down to go into the tab selection screen and pull the page down to refresh, and all the Firefox based browsers are so different it drives me crazy and I go back to chrome or brave.

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

Brave I think If not then ungoogled chromium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would it be better to replace Gemini with a local model run through ollama or something?

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

Yes, but unless you have god hardware it won’t be a direct replacement ):

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