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what are the best Google alternative apps ?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Google search - Start page

Gmail - Proton Mail

Google Drive - MEGA

Youtube- Newpipe

YouTube music - Black hole or Musify

Pixel Phones - Pine64 (Linux phone)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't Newpipe just a frontend to YouTube? It's better for privacy, sure, but it still technically supports YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You might prefer Peertube then

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would recommend self hosting the drive aspect, cheaper and you retain your own information all the while.

Pixel phones are fine with a custom OS. Linux phones are horrible both with user interface and battery life.

Instead of black hole (which has horrible catalog of music) or Musify, just selfhost Deemix+Navidrome.

Instead of startpage use something more reputable like qwant or duckduckgo.

Proton can be debatable because of it's past, though they have since fixed it. Alternatives include : tutanota, mailbox.org, etc. Alot of good email alternatives exist.

[–] Caboose12000 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can you expand a little on protons past? I haven't heard about it. I'm trying to decide what email service to go with currently since I just bought a domain and I wanted to use it with my new non-googled email

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Protonmail doesn't have a past of bad behaviour per se - they do comply with legal subpoenas from the Swiss authorities (they are based there) but as emails are user-key encrypted and they don't keep a copy of the user key, the most they can provide is IP addresses and dates.

There was some stuff that went down with regards to a French activist but nothing that puts Protonmail at fault (again, legally binding court order, they literally had no choice)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dont know how to host. If someone can make a guide, I would love to host all my stuff. I am not sure about using Duckduckgo as anything US based is a big red flag. As a EU citizen, I would prefer search engine hosted in EU.

[–] ulemmyagain 3 points 1 year ago

https://yunohost.org/ This is by far the easiest way to get into self-hosting I've seen. I have more specific needs so I don't personally use it, but it's really cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I made a comment a little bit ago relating to creating a NAS, but the steps are generally the same.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/1524030

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