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!
@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.
@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/...
@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 👍
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.
@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.
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
@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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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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