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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] 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month 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] 1 points 1 month ago

Seafile as a Google Drive/Dropbox replacement. You can self host but they also offer paid accounts I think.

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

Is there a graphene option for is broke folk? I'd love to move away from android but it only works on phones I can't afford.

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

Pixel 7a is still supported for 3ish more years and can be had refurbished for like $200. Still a solid phone as well. My daily driver.

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

I guess pixel 9a would be the best choice or a supported older model

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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] 14 points 1 month ago (2 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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

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

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

Vivaldi and brave are just chrome.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you're degoogling to reduce google's influence in the world, not just in your life, you should avoid chromium based browsers entirely. Google's chromium web rendering engine dominates most web traffic, and is squeezing out all alternatives. This leaves defining web standards in the hands of google pretty much exclusively. Vivaldi and Brave should be avoided for this reason. Brave founder Brendan Eich donates to funds seeking to undo gay marriage protections in the US and other reactionary causes, if that matters to you (it should).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow! These are great. I'm going to have to try out minusgames. I've just been using syncthing.

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

I run a lot of these on the background of my desktop too and you can flip them off if they're too intensive and you want to game or something. Self hosting is a little tedious to start but it saves so much money lol.

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

Floorp mentioned!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (7 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] 2 points 1 month 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?

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

Futo keyboard has voice to text with the ability to download more language models

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

I guess I should have said why I’m considering them.

https://updates.openphone.com/introducing-the-openphone-web-app-133882

Looks like they’ve had web based messaging since 2020.





My main use for Google Voice is as a filter for places that need my number. Then it’s not ringing my phone (unless I want to).

I did also make sure any alternatives I’m considering do messaging. Even better if it’s both in browser and in phone app.

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

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

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

https://www.openphone.com/privacy

I’d love opinions on it, too. Or alternatives.

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

Alternative to google search engine, Kagi

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why is that a problem exactly?
Is it just because they're Russian?
Are there some dots I'm not connecting?

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

russia is the no-no country for doing bad things, like starting pointless wars and terrorizing a civilian population. so you can't support them. you'll have to find other alternatives to your services that support bad countries doing bad things.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes Steve. Because they are Russian, pay their taxes in Russia and therefore finance the war. They can potentially introduce biases in their search results as well.

Please note that it's just a PSA. Do what you want with this information.

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

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

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