The purpose of this thread is to provide alternatives for the google products/services.
Main goal: liberate yourself from the digital version of 'Brave New World/1984'
>Recommended search engines:
Qwant, Startpage, Searx, Yandex, DuckDuckGo
>Email:
Cock.li
Tutanota
Protonmail
mailinabox.email (easy to setup self-hosted email)
>Cloud Storage/Notes, Contacts, Calendar:
Self-hosting your own NextCloud is your best bet for this but if you lack the knowledge or resources there's nextcloud.com/providers/ and disroot.org for a limited free option, you could use NextClouds p2p encryption feature or cryptomator to keep your files safe on a 3rd party server but that won't cover the motes, contacts or calendar sync
>Video Hosting:
youtube-dl + RSS for subscriptions for a YouTube experience that gets rid of at least some of googles tracking, invidio.us for a more ez-mode approach, dtube is also an option if you want to avoid YouTube altogether
>Smartphone:
Flash an AOSP rom like lineageOS without the proprietary google play services addon, Flash MicroG if you need an app that requires play services, SailfishOS is an okay option, Avoid iOS that's moving from one proprietary walled garden to another
>Android apps:
F-Droid
Yalp/Aurora store (play store mirrors)
Adaway
AFWall+
Nesteps
Clover/Kuroba :^)
Newpipe (YouTube alternative)
>Recommended browsers:
GNU/Icecat, Palemoon, Ungoogled-Chromium, Brave
If you're going to use (or use already) Firefox or a fork follow the instructions over on www.privacytools.io/browsers/ for some extra browser hardening steps
And thanks to the user who posted this template on a degoogle thread a while back
