Have any of you succesfully rid yourself of Google services? Which alternatives do you use?

Have any of you succesfully rid yourself of Google services? Which alternatives do you use?

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Well I have an S8 so...

Yeah. For the moment I switched to other botnets.

Search - Bing (I tried Qwant, but apparently it uses bing on the backend, so might as well)

Email - Outlook client with outlook address, all other accounts forwarded to it

On the phone, I disabled as much as I could and installed F-Droid as an app store. You can root your phone and install Lineage OS if you want to go that far.

>have any of you successfully rid yourself of google services?
everyone in the eu is about to whether they want to or not. the great european firewall is coming

>tfw lineageOS isn't supported on my phone

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I'm interested in this too. I know about MicroG but will it actually be enough to get most apps that I use on my LineageOS device to run properly?

To answer your question OP, try looking into Nextcloud. It has apps for contacts and a calendar which you can use webdav to sync to for starters.

I don't use any. I use Fastmail for email, calendars and address book. I use LineageOS on my phone.

I'll add this if you're looking for replacements.

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>LineageOS
Are there any problems with it or compromises you've had to accept?

>Are there any problems with it or compromises you've had to accept?

Not really. There's an alternative to pretty much all Google services. And the only ones I would really use is search and maps on mobile. For search I use DDG and for maps I use Openstreetmap.

I'm not on any social networks either. So I have no twitter, instagram (Facebook owned) or Google+...

I think if you're going to continue to use free services like Facebook and Instagram and others, you're going to have problems though.

I got an email package from namecheap that works okay except for an overzealous spam filer.

I use bing and duck duck go for search, and both are grossly inferior to google. I find I have to re-search at google at least 25% of the time to get decent results.

Still use google maps a lot, but that's just habit for now. I haven't used bing enough to see how it stacks up.

>grossly inferior to google

Use bangs on DDG. !g your_search_string will run the search through google from DDG.

Won't ddg just have to pay them a license fee? I'm not so concerned about privacy as I am about them profiting from me.

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This and privacytools are great resources, but they need to update their sites more frequently.

I guess I do still use at least one. I wish they'd replace recaptcha.

Have a gander here.

securityspread.com/2016/10/24/duckduckgo-startpage-2016-update/

>apparently it uses bing on the backend, so might as well
Except Qwant doesn't datamine you. Using Bing directly is the same as using Google. You're not helping yourself in any way by avoiding Google in your case, so why not use Google?

Pls elaborate I haven’t been following any news

In the past two months I have embraced it more and more, it has made a few tbings in my daily life a bit easier

gmail -> ProtonMail
Search -> startpage
Maps -> OsmAnd
Android -> LineageOS without gapps
Play Store -> F-Droid and Yalp Store
Youtube -> NewPipe
Chrome -> Ungoogled Chromium
Drive -> NextCloud and SyncThing

This is temporary until I identify a better nonbotnet alternative.

I thought that if Qwant uses Bing on backend they also datamine you . That's why I said might as well. And yeah, there's not much of a difference, except I hate Google more than Microsoft at the moment.

Long-term I'm hoping to find reliable alternatives to Bing and outlook.

>osmand
When osmand has traffic information to auto update my route and redraws more than once a second, I'll take it.

Oh and:
Calendar -> Simple Calendar

Doesn’t have all the fancy syncing of Google calendar, but I generally have my phone on me so if there’s a notification of an event I need to remember ill get it.

What about searx.me?

Startpage and Protonmail.

Yes

iOS
ProtonMail
iCloud for reminders/calendar/photo services (will be migrated to Nextcloud eventually)
Firefox
DuckDuckGo


It actually isn't that difficult in practice

Will test it tomorrow and see how it performs.

only a wagecuck is in that much of a hurry

Just get an Apple product, an iCloud email, set safari search to DDG and you’re done.

disable gapps they dont get any money from an android install they make their money from you using their services

use another search engine

don't use youtube or adblock youtube

I use Bing now.

yandex
baidu

>Apple product

So basically the only company worse than Google

...

osmand is pure garbage when it comes to the task of searching for businesses (hotels, restaurants, stores) in an area. it is also deficient in information about public transit. if im in a situation where i have to use a subway in an unfamiliar town, i open gmaps.

it is brilliant to use if you want to follow a particular route that someone made a .gpx file of. thats kind of an obscure feature, but it saved me and my buddy from losing our way, and you cant do it in gmaps. also the fact that you can have offline maps downloaded without wierd time limits, license agreements, or strings attached. that is incredibly nice to have.

the only thing i have left is Hangouts which my friends still use.

oh and i guess i also work for them..

95% of the way there. Still have (((gmail))) but i have a posteo.de email account set up and i will set email forwarding up to that account

using jewtube still but i stream everything through mpv and use rss for all my subscriptions. dont have a youtube account

lineage os w/o gapps on my phone. 100% open source apps from fdroid

nearly out of the sjw botnet

Man I really want to switch to this too

Is GMX email botnet-tier?

Dipshit alert.
The only thing you should use Bing for is porn.

t. scared googler

Why would I ever need Google besides the captcha? Regardless, I have a pass and block Google with uMatrix.

But I don't use google. Why would you hate one giant evil company but think it's mirror image is a better alternative?

the email thing is easy, and it's not like i communicate much or have sensitive info there, so i'm kinda of hypocrite to still use gmail for most of my shit, i have proton tho, but can't be bother with typing in 2 long passwords every damn time
google calendar is, sadly, the best calendar software i've use and i've tried many, i don't sync or use mobile or anything, it's just intuitive and easy/fast to use
dont use cloud storage
use ddg searx unbubble as search eng, ffdev browser
using win7 because fuck getting linux shit to work half the time, although much faster and responsive for the most part
google will fall sooner or later, every company does

>using win7
Just as bad as 10.

pppuhleeze rezpond

I'm kind of annoyed that Linage on the s8 development has halted despite the s9 and s7 both having full support

tempted to get an s9 but i'm not sure if I can justify the cost so I can use Linage on a good phone

No. Recently I've started embracing it more and more.

The biggest secret to leaving google is to use your phone less, and for fewer things.

>There's an alternative to pretty much all Google services
There isn't one for games which need google play games.

That's something microsoft wants people desperately to believe, so they will move to the ACTUALLY worse OS.

Moot pls come back. ;_;

What people should realise is that GNU/Linux is better in every way and there is no reason to allow yourself to be used by Microsoft.

>What people should realise is that GNU/Linux is better in every way
It is, except for games.

Not only are games for children, but they are proprietary and full of harmful DRM for the most part.

i think google owns gmx now. i know someone big took them over. i still use mine and honestly dont give a fuck about botnet anymore, its literally /x/ tier garbage

>Not only are games for children
>i-it doesn't count
>this form of entertainment is irrelevant
See, this is how you lose all your arguments.

I use gmail, why would I change my email service? email is dead and just for spam shit & sign ups anyway.
nothing else though

What games are you actually referring to? There are plenty of games available in the repos of pretty much every distro.

ok so unitied internet took over gmx which is bot considering they are part of 14 eyes. the only way to be free is the stallman way

everything, since 1995 to now, except DX12 exclusives.

I know that there's usually a version of Tetris available.

I have, in fact, been using more Google services. It warms my heart that my money is going towards ending yt people.

This guy gets it.

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