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?

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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    9 hours ago

    Google office stuff > libreoffice

    Chrome > firefox and librewolf

    gmail > proton

    Google > ddg

    Iphone > grapheneos pixel

    Youtube account > newpipe, libretube, grayjay with exported subscriptions

    Google drive > synology

    I think that covers about everything google specific.

    Note: I included iphone because even iphones ping google SUPL servers whereas Grapheneos settings host their own servers to ping to avoid sending stuff out to google.