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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

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  2. Nextcloud Talk
  3. Signal

🔐 Google Authenticator

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  2. andOTP
  3. Aegis Authenticator
  4. Bitwarden

note: do not use the same provider for password manager and authenticator

🗒️ Google Keep

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  2. Joplin
  3. Notesnook

💬Google Messages

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  2. Theerma
  3. Session

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  2. Debian
  3. PopOS

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  1. Bitwarden
  2. KeePass

📚Google books

  1. Libby

🎶YouTube Music

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  2. Tidal
  3. Deezer

🤖Gemini

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  2. Le chat (opt out of data sending) - protected by eu privacy laws
  3. Ollama (self hosted)

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[–] [email protected] 22 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] 14 points 1 month ago (1 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.

[–] DrunkAnRoot 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

another option if you want a hybrid is host a jellyfin instance with your music youbcan even install a lrclib plugin and get pretty good lyrics

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

Oh? Self hosted music streaming? Thats neat as fucc

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bitwarden also makes an OTP authenticator app.

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[–] [email protected] 6 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] 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [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] 3 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Wouldn't really recommend threema and would include SimpleX

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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] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

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

It is paid and/or open source

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

It is free and open source. https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online

Download via F-Droid needs additional repository: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/downloads/fdroid/repo/?fingerprint=573258C84E149B5F4D9299E7434B2B69A8410372921D4AE586BA91EC767892CC

"NOTE: main server is offline, you’ll see the message that you’ll add a mirror, that’s expected. To make it skip the main server, open repo details and toggle off first collaboraonline.com entry." (https://forum.f-droid.org/t/known-repositories/721)

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[–] [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.

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

Saved! This is an excellent resource thanks so much

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