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What apps have you tried to "de-google" yourself? (reddthat.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by pleasestopasking@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Right now a lot of us are trying to divest and diversify from having our entire lives on Google both because of the way Google spends its money and the long-standing privacy concerns seeming a bit more scary now.

What services have you switched to and what has your experience been? What do you like, what don't you like, would you recommend them?

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[–] UltraMasculine@sopuli.xyz 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

If I remember correctly I started deGoogling "seriously" in the last summer. At this point YouTube and Youtube Music are the only Google products/services I still use daily but only on PC. I never use them on phone. I also am quite forced to use Gmail sometimes but otherwise I avoid it like a plague.

I think my phone is as deGoogled as possible without rooting and/or changing the OS. I have uninstalled every Google app that I have been able to uninstall and also I have disabled every Google service that is possible to disable. I still have to deMicrosoft my PC. I want to move to Linux but I have understood that there's some compatibility issues with Reaper and virtual instruments. That's the only reason I haven't done it yet.

Anyway. Here is a list of apps/services I use instead of Google's sh*t:

Browser: Waterfox on PC and Ironfox on phone (of course both with uBlock Origin)
Cloud storage: Proton Drive
Email: Proton Mail
Calendar: Proton Calendar
Authenticator: Aegis
Map: OsmAnd
Search engine: DuckDuckGo and Brave Search
Play Store: Droid-ify and Aurora Store (not signed in)
Speech Recognition & Synthesis: SherpaTTS
Find My Device: FindMyDevice (FOSS)

I think that's all. There's some other FOSS apps and services that I use but they are not exactly replacements for Google's sh*t.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

On your PC, freetube will work as a Youtube frontend, you can point it to an invidious instance to act proxy to youtube if you like.

[–] UltraMasculine@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I actually know FreeTube but for some reason I haven't even tried it yet, but now I will. Thanks.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Be warned, moving your subscriptions over is a bit of a pain in the as since you have to use Google takeout to download a json list if all your subs, otherwise it's solid and smooth, comes with sponsorblock built in

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