Ok, here is my journey in degoogling my life. But before doing anything I’d like to say that I’m not someone who will 100% ditch google and every single of their service and app. I think Google have some of good services I still like to use, my only plan is to not be dependent on a single company like Google or some else. So let’s begin.

Search engine

Let’s start from what Google as company started. I use duckduckgo as my main search engine, I may be sometimes jump from one to other when bored but I mostly use duckduckgo. I also like duck.ai chat bot where you can chay with 4 different bots without the need for an account.

Phone

On my phone I am using lineage os with nikgapps core package. Lineage os is basically custom operating system based on android which brings your phone new life, and nikgapps core is package which contains only bare minimum google apps to run play store.

https://lineageos.org/

https://nikgapps.com/

DNS server

For my DNS server I’m using cloudflare because it’s fast and has good security for me.

 

Mail

For mail I’m using gmail, because I already used it and don’t really need encryption for mail. And for my mail client on android I use K-9 Mail (Thunderbird for android) on PC I use webapp.

https://k9mail.app/

Maps

Instead of google maps I decided to use OpenStreetMaps which is free and open source maps which respects privacy and everyone can contribute, I am using OrganicMaps on android which uses OpenStreetMaps

https://organicmaps.app/

https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Cloud storage

I simply do not use, I have 64GB micro SD card in my phone and use it to store pictures videos and backups of some apps. I am thinking of buying external ssd or HDD for better backup.

Podcasts

I really like podcasts and I was using google podcasts app when was still available but unfortunately they discontinued an app, as always and I tried using yt music for podcasts but I just can’t get satisfied with it, I am now using AntennaPod and I’m much more satisfied here.

https://antennapod.org/

Music

For music I either use innertune app on android or YouTube music on web browser.

https://github.com/z-huang/InnerTune

PC

Currently I am running arch with GNOME mostly because it works for me. But I also sometimes distrohop when bored. And basically the only apps I use there are Vivaldi as my browser and video and audio player, I use default GNOME apps.

Conclusion

Basically what I’m trying to say here is that I’m trying to use less Google and more from other companies and different projects. I still use gmail and YouTube because there is not much of a competition for YouTube although I do watch some PeerTube content from my Mastodon account.