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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] 2 points 2 days 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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days 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] 12 points 2 days 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] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 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 2 days ago (1 children)

Vivaldi and brave are just chrome.

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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] 2 points 2 days ago

Floorp mentioned!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Threema (not Therma)

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

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

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

https://www.openphone.com/privacy

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

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

Alternative to google search engine, Kagi

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days ago

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

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