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Today was huge. I’ve separated myself enough from Google with Proton applications/services combined with other more privacy focused software and hardware to be able to completely delete my Google account.

It feels great to FINALLY be free of them. I’ve had an account there for decades.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What do you do for email? Photo storage?

Those are the two biggest reasons for me to stay with Google but I'd like to start clawing my data back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It looks like ente.io for photo management will probably be listed on the privacy guides website soon: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/ente-photo-management/11763

For email/calendar/drive Proton is the easy choice. I know photo upload is on their radar too but like everything with proton it will probably be a while before that's ready to roll out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Regarding photo storage, Immich is pretty close to a perfect clone/replacement for Google Fotos in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Runbox and Proton for email, Nextcloud and Immich for photos.

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

if photo syncing to desktop is an option, try syncthing. I've got it set up to work only on my LAN, so when I get home it gets synced automagically. also nextcloud.

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

Syncthing is the way. It works amazingly well, I use it to sync project files between my phone and PC.

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

what OS do you use with syncthing? because (for me) on ubuntu, it won't sync my video files between a computer and 2 android devices, and on fedora it won't sync text files correctly (i keep getting sync conflicts)

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

Skiff (https://skiff.com/) with custom domain for e-mail. Alternatives: Tutanota (https://tutanota.com/) or Proton Mail (https://proton.me/)

Ente Photos (https://ente.io/) for photo storage. Alternatives: Stingle Photos (https://stingle.org/) or Cryptee (https://crypt.ee/)