Privacy, from my point of view, means I have control over where my personal data goes and I am not being surveilled by governments or by ad companies. I generally use Techlore, Privacy Guides, and this community for reference and recommendations.
If not for Play Books, my YouTube channel and a few services still using Google SSO, I would be completely off Google.
Current Google Substitutions:
Google Search --> Startpage
Maps --> OpenStreetMap / Organic Maps
YouTube --> Invidious / Yattee, and PeerTube
Play Store --> F-Droid and Aurora Store
News --> NetNewsWire (using Sky News, Gay Times, them., and a few comics and oddities)
Gmail --> ProtonMail
Meet --> Jitsi Meet
Drive --> Filen
Calendar --> Proton Calendar
Translate --> TransLite
Photos --> Filen
Chrome --> LibreWolf / Orion
Chat --> WhatsApp, Discord, and Instagram (I would prefer to use Matrix, but my increasingly distributed friends won’t move)
Google Workspace --> LibreOffice, GOffice, and ONLYOFFICE
Blogger --> Neocities
Keep --> Cryptee
Forms --> FramaForms (I plan to start using Purplix once it’s out of alpha)
Privacy, from my point of view, means I have control over where my personal data goes and I am not being surveilled by governments or by ad companies. I generally use Techlore, Privacy Guides, and this community for reference and recommendations.
If not for Play Books, my YouTube channel and a few services still using Google SSO, I would be completely off Google.
Current Google Substitutions: