• T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    From Canada, I’ve done the same as you, but I’m struggling to de Google. Any suggestions?

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      4 hours ago
      • Protonmail (i know it gets a lot of backfire on lemmy) and tutamail for mail
      • Proton drive for google drive
      • for travel i use TomoTom Go (amigo is free)
      • Duckduckgo and librewolf as browsers
      • Qwant and Ecosia as search engines

      good luck, and don’t flame me for using Proton lol

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      4 hours ago

      GrapheneOS, CalyxOs or LineageOs as an alternative to just using android.

      F-droid and Aurora store for almost all android apps, Obtainium if you can find your way around git forges.

      Tuta mail, Posteo and other alternatives for Gmail.

      Firefox and Thunderbird as replacement for Chrome and Gmail app

      Duckduckgo/Ecosia(uses Microsoft’s Bing), Kagi(good but paid), SearX(free but you can run into limits quickly), Marginalia(nonpaid websites only) :- all are replacements for Google search, also learn to use search bangs to quickly take advantages of different search engine

      i don’t use almost all of Google’s other products but a search would pop up other alternatives. Don’t forget to use Google Takeout if you have an account with them.

      Goodluck!

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        Firefox and Mozilla to a larger extent may be going down the gutter soon. They have been angling towards AI shit, and then their new terms of service debacle this last week makes it clear they want to sell your data for ads.

        I’ve moved from FF to Zen browser, which is a fork. And also Librewolf, another fork.

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        4 hours ago

        I appreciate it thanks! I’ve been using DDG and fire fox for a while. I’ll have to look up this Google takeout. Thanks again for the tips!

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          Google take out worked for me to export all my google foto’s so i can save them somewhere else! I was using firefox as well, but moving now towards Librefox, duckduckgo browsers. I also like Vivaldi but not sure how good it is on the privacy meters :)