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De-Google Your Life - Part 1 - YouTube LTT (youtu.be)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I used AI to summarize the different Google products and services listed in the video along with their suggested alternatives and timestamps. AI is pretty cool sometimes.

Google Product/Service	Recommended Alternatives	Timestamp
Google Chrome	Firefox, Brave, Arc, Ungoogled Chromium	94-326
Google Search	Startpage, Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, Kagi	328-493
Gmail	Tutanota, ProtonMail	534-671
Google Photos	Ente, Stingle	674-794
Google DNS	Quad9, NextDNS, Cloudflare	827-1074
Google Analytics	Not covered in this video, to be discussed in part 2	N/A
Google Maps	To be covered in part 2	N/A
Google Ad Services	To be covered in part 2	N/A
Google Drive	To be covered in part 2	N/A
YouTube	To be covered in part 2	N/A

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I want to get off Google photos, but I also don't want to pay a subscription. And I don't really want to self host. A pay once service I'd accept, but I haven't seen one with an extremely cursory search. I don't need any fancy features. Just store the photos, let me see them online, and let me put them in albums.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If its free, then you are the product. Can't really expect to switch to another free product and expect any form of privacy. You could try Microsoft's One Drive but it isn't much different. I've been recommending Ente Photos which is a subscription but it's worth it for me. About 3 or 4 bucks a month for 50GB.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If its free, then you are the product

Right. I get that. But I'd like to just pay once. I don't like subscriptions. But since file storage has ongoing costs, it seems unlikely anyone would offer a pay-once-and-we'll-host-your-files.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

There is pcloud and filen.io both have lifetime plans but I'm not sure how close you can get to something like Google Photos or Ente Photos with these providers.

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