Key ⭕️Open Source 🔵Google front end/ built upon a Google service (chromium eg) 🟡 Paid (no free plan)
🔍 Google Search
- DuckDuckGo
- Startpage
- Searxng
- Kagi
📧 Gmail
- ProtonMail
- Tutanota
- Mailbox 🟡
🌐 Chrome _All my browser suggestions are open source apart from vivaldi _
- Librewolf
- Brave Browser 🟡
- Mullvad Browser
- Vivaldi🟡
- Floorp
📱 Android Custrom ROMS
- GrapheneOS🔵⭕️
- CalyxOS🔵⭕️ 3. /e/OS🔵⭕️
☁️ Google Drive
- Nextcloud (self hosted)
- Filen
- Syncthing
- Proton Drive 🟡
🗺️ Google Maps
- OSMAnd
- Mapy
- Organic Maps
📝 Google Docs / Sheets / Slides All open source
- LibreOffice
- OnlyOffice
- OpenOffice
📺 YouTube
- Invidious 🌕
- Piped🟡
- PeerTube
📸 Google Photos
- ente photos
- Nextcloud Photos
- Immich
🌐 Google Translate
- DeepL
- LibreTranslate
- Apertium
📅 Google Calendar
- Proton Calendar
- Nextcloud Calendar
- Etar
- 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
🔍Lens Wip 🚧
💳Google pay Wip 🚧
✔️Google tasks
📰Google news
- Your own rss feed reader eg Readrops
🧑🏫Google classroom Wip 🚧
🌎Google VPN all paid
- Mullvad
- Proton
- 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
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.
Bitwarden also makes an OTP authenticator app.
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).
Most KeePass clients have built-in OTP support too. That being said I still prefer Aegis.
Two corrections, Tutanota is just called Tuta now and SearX is no longer maintained, SearXNG is the active fork.
As far as YT goes, I use Freetube and don’t have any complaints. Available for win/mac/linux
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.
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.
Wow! These are great. I’m going to have to try out minusgames. I’ve just been using syncthing.
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.
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
Cryptpad for a Drive/Online Office Suite replacement, it’s fantastic
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.
Youtube alternatives invidious and piped really works dude ? I don’t think so… youtube don’t want users to watch it in a privacy focused way.
Peertube is awesome but without enough contents. Am just limited what to watch.
Quitting youtube is so hard because i even cared about my online privacy because of some privacy focused youtubers. And this youtubers too not leaving youtube or choosing peertube as an another playform to post contents.
Eg :- the hated one, mental outlaw, switched to linux,…
There are tons of foss services available but most of them are based on big tech. Am not saying it is bad, but how limited our options are…
I initially had problems with Piped, but I’ve been using PipePipe for ages and have never had an issue.
For news/RSS feed I’ve been using Readrops that is available in Fdroid https://f-droid.org/packages/com.readrops.app
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.
Vivaldi and brave are just chrome.
Vivaldi is, but brave is much more than chrome and vanilla firefox
Seafile as a Google Drive/Dropbox replacement. You can self host but they also offer paid accounts I think.
Threema (not Therma)
Thanks. It’s updated now
Should’ve gone for a name like 3ema instead in my opinion.
3nema
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?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.
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.
