Speak your mind. Long and short. The current state of the world is to train everyone to be ADD and reject anything longer than a 2 second sound bite or phrase… It’s intentional to make us stupid and make us forget how to converse.

DeGoogled Life:

Chrome Browser:

LibreWolf, Brave, Icecat, vanilla Firefox, Tor

Google Android:

GrapheneOS, Calyx, Divest/Lineage, Linux phones like Pine

Google Search:

MetaGer, Mojeek, SearXNG w/ farside.link , Brave (AWS), Yandex

Google Docs:

Nextcloud, Ente.io (Photos), onlyOffice

Google Meet:

Keet, Jitsi, Matrix (browser platform), Brave’s Video Meet (AWS)

Youtube alternatives

Peertube, Rumble, Odysee

Youtube Front-ends

Freetube (desktop), NewPipe (android), Invidious.io (browser), Piped (browser)

Gmail

Paid on VPS: Mail-in-a-box, Luke Smith Scripts, iRedMail

Free burners: Protonmail, Tutanota, Skiff (Cloudflare’d)

Google Maps

OSMand, Organic Maps, Duckduckgo (Apple maps).

And if you absolutely need Google, then use Divested Computing Group’s “Gmaps WV” F-Droid app. It’s a front-end wrapper

Translate

LibreTranslate.org , DeepL

You got other ones? Post in the comments!

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