🔍 Google Search
- Leta
- 4get
- Searxng
- Kagi
📧 Gmail
- ProtonMail
- Tutanota
- Mailbox
🌐 Chrome
- Librewolf
- Brave Browser
- Mullvad Browser
- Vivaldi - partially open source
- Floorp
📱 Android Custrom ROMS
- GrapheneOS
- Calyx 3. /e/OS
☁️ Google Drive
- Nextcloud (self hosted)
- Filen
- Syncthing
- Proton Drive
🗺️ Google Maps
- OSMAnd
- Mapy
- Organic Maps
📝 Google Docs / Sheets / Slides
- CryptPad
- LibreOffice
- OnlyOffice
- Collabra
📺 YouTube
- PeerTube
- Piped
- Indivious
📸 Google Photos
- Ente photos
- Nextcloud Photos
- Immich
🌐 Google Translate
- DeepL
- LibreTranslate
📅 Google Calendar
- Proton Calendar
- Nextcloud Calendar (self hosted)
- Tuta Calendar
📱 Google Play
- F‑Droid
- Aurora Store
🎥 Google Meet
- Jitsi Meet
- Nextcloud Talk
- Signal
🔐 Google Authenticator
- Ente auth
- andOTP
- Aegis Authenticator
- Bitwarden
note: do not use the same provider for password manager and authenticator
🗒️ Google Keep
- Standard Notes
- Joplin
- Notesnook
💬Google Messages
- Signal
- Theerma
- Session
⚙️ChromeOS
- Linux mint
- Debian
- PopOS
🗝️Google Passwords (baked into chrome)
- Bitwarden
- KeePass
📚Google books
- Libby
🎶YouTube Music
- Qobuz
- Tidal
- Deezer
🤖Gemini
- Duck.ai
- Le chat (opt out of data sending) - protected by eu privacy laws
- Ollama (self hosted)
🔍Lens Wip 🚧
💳Google pay Wip 🚧
✔️Google tasks
📰Google news
- Host your own rss feed reader eg Readrops
🧑🏫Google classroom Wip 🚧
🌎Google VPN
- Mullvad
- ProtonVPN - free plan
- 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
Someone please help me find a browser that has the Chromium gestures.
I want o be able to pull the URL bar down to go into the tab selection screen and pull the page down to refresh, and all the Firefox based browsers are so different it drives me crazy and I go back to chrome or brave.
Brave I think If not then ungoogled chromium
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I initially had problems with Piped, but I’ve been using PipePipe for ages and have never had an issue.
Wouldn’t really recommend threema and would include SimpleX
Why not?
Based around a company
To be fair, Simplex is also a for-profit company. However, it’s at least decentralized and more open, I’d take it over Threema any day.
What’s wrong with threema?
I’m concerned about centralization the most.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but how is signal any less centralised?
Signal isn’t, and that’s one of mine (and a lot of other people’s) main gripes with it.
Where did you found that SimpleX was for profit?
Their own FAQ: https://simplex.chat/faq/#funding-and-business-model
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It has TOTP built-in for paid accounts.
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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.
Nice. Notesnook is great for sync between pc and phone, but I don’t know the others. Thanks!
Alternative to google search engine, Kagi
Just a PSA about Kagi: https://snoo.habedieeh.re/r/ukraine/comments/1gvcqua/psa_the_kagi_search_engine_directly_funds_yandex/
DuckDuckGo has suspended its partnership with Yandex in 2022. https://www.vox.com/recode/22981115/duckduckgo-free-speech-privacy-oops
Why is that a problem exactly?
Is it just because they’re Russian?
Are there some dots I’m not connecting?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.
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.
Threema (not Therma)
Thanks. It’s updated now
closer
Should’ve gone for a me like 3ema instead in my opinion.
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.
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?
Futo keyboard has voice to text with the ability to download more language models
Looks good! I’ll add it to the list. Google voice and google pay are by far the hardest to replace
If you don’t need the business features, I use jmp.chat for $5 a month.
@Zachariah @lopar49 I used Openphone a few years ago, and it was terrible. Lots of SMS never came through, didn’t work for OTPs (even though they claimed it would), terrible customer service. Despite it being more complex technically, JMP.Chat is much, much better.
Can anyone vouch for this? Is it open source? What is it’s privacy policy
Floorp mentioned!
I like Firefox Sync. What are my options when moving to Librewolf?
You can continue using it.
https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#can-i-use-firefox-sync-with-librewolf-is-it-safe-to-do-so
Any iOS alternative to Google Tasks?
After further inspection, I would recommend Joplin for most private
Thanks for your tips :-) I have been trying both Anytype and Joplin, and might use either, but they seem to be primarly note apps not task/todo/reminder/list/priority apps.
Your first links looked interesting, so I will do some research on them.
Maybe anytype
Maybe omni focus?
Maybe a Joplin? Sorry this is a kinda half arsed andwer I’ll be back with a better one in a mo
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.
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
Oh? Self hosted music streaming? Thats neat as fucc
I do it with navidrome. Have been streaming my music from my desktop for the past 3 months. Pretty satisfying. I haven’t done the fancy lyric stuff yet though.
I’ll have to try that. I’ve gone back to straight mp3s on my phone.
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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.
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.
lineage os has a pretty extensive device support or in theroy you could compile base android with none of the spookieness or bloat.
