No More Google: Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google products ❤️

eu/acc: European Accelerationism

Maker

Hi Hunters! 👋 🤔I built this today quickly after waking up and seeing all the recent uproar about Google and their user-unfriendly behavior. I think big companies deserve pushback when they're going in a way that's not in the user's interest, and we as the (paying) users, have a democratic say by using their products or not. If we want to stop using their products, we need to know good alternatives though. Luckily they exist. 👩‍🌾There's lots of indie and user-friendly alternatives to Google products now and this is a real-time publicly editable list where you can find them. Enjoy 😄 and let me know what you think and what alternatives to add!

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6yr ago

Jason Safaiyeh

Mac TODO Menubar

@levelsio What is the alternative to Android? I do not think Apple is any better.

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6yr ago

Marko Saric

Plausible Analytics

@levelsio @safaiyeh https://lineageos.org/ is worth a look

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6yr ago

Nick Gurney

@levelsio @safaiyeh I believe that depends what your definition of "better" is. As far as privacy goes, Apple is night and day better than Android. I won't say they are perfect, but I'd never risk my personal information on an Android device.

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6yr ago

Matthias Pfau

@levelsio I'd suggest to add Tutanota - it's a fully encrypted mail service that unlike Gmail respects uers' privacy. Here are more ideas for privacy-first alternatives: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/...

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6yr ago

devarsh ruparelia

Maker Mag

@levelsio this is a great list. You can also add Privacy.com - a tool that allows one to pay with burner cards online (works only in United States) as an alternative for Google Pay. Thank you for making this 👍

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6yr ago

Fgx6

Privacy is a generally overhyped and none of alternative products guarantee the privacy better than google. I kindof don't like this biasing.

I just love google for what it has done to this world. Making it smaller and rapid. Let it do whatever it does best and not poke it.

Pros:

Finding alternatives.

Cons:

Most alternatives are inferior. I'll stick to whatever product that solves its purpose better rather being emotinally destructive.

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6yr ago

Emmanuel Lemor

Most alternatives are actually not inferior but most of us have gotten so brainwashed by Google that we lose track that there are alternatives, other ways of doing things - I'm sure it's some sort of Bias that I don't know the name of off top of my head. Plus alternatives creates competition and forces everyone to improve... the world would be a horrible place with only 1 solution for each thing.

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6yr ago

Johns Beharry

The Bitcoin Design Guide

> Privacy is a generally overhyped Would you be willing to share your real time location + bank account balance?

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6yr ago

Ludjer

@johnsbeharry Well with google I already share the location and it has helped prove I was not at a location where my credit card was used. So it has saved me a couple thousand dollars. I would share my bank balance if they optimised the adds around what I have and not what they think I have. Biggest reason I cant use duck duck go is because I want my search history. So many times i remembered finding a solution to a issue and then I went back in my google search history to find the solution page instead of researching it from the get go. So far not 1 bad thing has happened to me because google knows know everything. I don't see what I gain by having more privacy, I just see a bunch of lost functionality.

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6yr ago

Andrey Azimov

Web3 Jobs

Great idea! It seems like a big trend right now to get rid of some of Google Products. Can you please add a separate category for Google Docs, Google Sheets? Google Sheets: - Airtable 2.0 - Coda - Quip 3.0 Google Docs: - Notion 2.0 - Quip 3.0 - Workflowy

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6yr ago

Gary Fung

@andreyazimov @levelsio And for Google Chrome: - WonderSwipe: https://www.producthunt.com/post... Why settle with just blocking ads? Avoid trackers and time wasted on loading heavy webpages, while at it.

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6yr ago

Fabian

66transfer

@andreyazimov A google analytics alternative is https://66analytics.com as well 🤗. It is a fully self-hosted, one-time payment with free future updates: all-in-one web analytics (lightweight and advanced tracking). Just submitted it to the list as well 🙌.

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4yr ago

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