DeGoogle Yourself

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by weaselsrippedmyflesh@piefed.social to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 6 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Without having watched it, I'll guess stopping it goes in the line of "little by little, but growing ever more independant from it".

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (4 children)

That's what I'm doing..

Switch away from Google Chrome to [redacted].

Switch away from Google Search to [redacted].

Get a free [redacted] account and start moving accounts.

Use [redacted] instead of Google Maps, discover [redacted] is now owned by Google, buy a fucking atlas. Fuck this timeline.

Next step/shit to figure out:

Move my contacts off of Google.

The Last Thing I'll Do: Migrate Photos to a self-hosted solution.

Edit: Why is this downvoted? Did you guys follow me from reddit lol

Edit 2: Removed any mention of software that may have offended people.

[–] Milk@lemdro.id 3 points 1 day ago

Try using CoMaps or Organic Maps. I prefer Co Maps over Organic Maps but each their own.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Ente Photos is a pretty good Google Photos replacement if you don't want expend the effort for a full self-hosted solution yet

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Don't use Brave.

Also use CoMaps with RHVoice.

[–] stoicEuropean@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can recommend HereWeGo as an alternative to Maps. I switched two years ago and I am quite happy with it ever since.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Installed. But, long term, how do they plan to pay their bills?

Also, any advice for a text-to-speech engine on Graphene? Here We Go won't talk to me without one.

[–] WilkoWandered@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

SherpaTTS is what I use for text to speech on GrapheneOS. Works fine with herewego.

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