🩵 Bwee the Fluffdragon 🩵May 16, 2024

So... I've read some things lately about the big evil G that have put me into unease. The problem is, I use Google for absolutely everything right now, and have for as long as Google has existed. It's tied into everything and I need to break free.

These are the Google things I use regularly:

* Email - Gmail (I have many years of email that I've saved in my account)
* Browser - Chrome (including saving my passwords)
* Writing - Docs (I need collaborative capabilities and a place to safely save my work)
* Spreadsheets - Sheets (used for organizing various things, collaborative options are very needed and used often)

My phone is even a Google Pixel phone, of course running Android and integrated into everything I do.

I am not very tech savvy. I need user-friendly, reliable, relatively easy to learn options for everything I use, and I have zero idea where to begin.

I've done searches online for alternatives, but nothing is really standing out to me as being a good replacement. If you have any ideas for me (and dear god let them please be free or have reasonable pricing) please let me know.

Thank you for any advice!

#help #google #degoogle

Edited to add: Thank you all so much for your thoughts and responses, I got more than I bargained for, haha! I have this post bookmarked and will take in the information at my own pace.

I will be muting this post as I have been a little overwhelmed with the responses, but I really appreciate all the input for when I have time to process it. :3

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Show threadWarmasterPalak

@Bwee

Not to be a downer, but it isn't just the primary sources you need to disconnect from. The secondary sources need to be removed, too. Google is like that stock investing scene in South Park, except in reverse. Instead of "and it's gone," you delete the data "and it's back." Big Data is a parasite and devilishly hard to get away from. No one just drops off the grid anymore. You exist in some database somewhere.

I don't mean to bring it down, but you're valuable to more than just your friends. We love you, but the internet loves to sell you as often as they can. The only way to break free is to break away from technology. Anything electronic is going to narc on you. Cash for everything, and don't use computers for anything. It's the only way to deGoogle. Anything less does nothing. It's just performance art.

I'm sorry.

May 16, 2024 at 11:52amWeb