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I created an infographic of privacy-forward alternatives to Google products...and would love your feedback.

Is it easy to use? Enough white space? Intuitive? Sharable? Is there anything I'm missing?

The infographic image in this post is NOT clickable. The link above will give you a downloadable PDF with working hyperlinks.

Re: the legend, "easy set-up/use" means either that this is a big part of the alternative product's branding, or I've used it myself and found it easy.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Open source licensing, offline-only usability, and self-hostable are the only important criteria to me, and they are not listed here.

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[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

mullvad browser was discontinued but ironfox is an up to date fork

[–] RiQuY@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you sure it was discontinued? Mullvad is not Mull.

[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Twitches@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I get these confused all the time.

Thanks for the info, I'll check it out!

It looks like Mullvad still exists ...but last time I checked, it was free and now it's around $5/month?

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't Grayjay a frontend for YouTube?

[–] Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aha! Yes, it is. Any suggestions for non-YouTube video platforms?

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Maybe Peertube or Odyssey.

[–] Kage@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago

I see Ground News recommended all the time but for some reason i cannot trust it, idk why

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

nah With all respect, as a proton user, proton docs sucks ass. but that may change in the future

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why could this not just be a webpage with links instead of an image or PDF

Because I like infographics. :) I'll be putting it on my website.

[–] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

The capitalization for OsmAnd should be corrected. Please?

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For news I would advice using the newstool MiniFlux.

MiniFlux

That looks awesome...but also complicated. I'm looking for things that, say, my mom could figure out. (She can't understand how to copy/paste, but would like to leave the Google ecosystem.0 :) Maybe someone should create a similar graphic for more tech-savvy people?

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since you included decentralized solutions like Peertube, maybe add SearXNG instances for searches ?

[–] Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hmm...Peertube was so easy for me to search and use—I think a lot of people wouldn't even know it's decentralized—but the SearXNG website is much more complicated. I'm looking for non-Google products that are easy for the average, non-tech person. Think SearXNG would work?

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a software dev... im still too stupid to use searxng. Guess its more of a "If its not that easy I wont go further learning it".

Maybe it was a lot of features missing that I missed from Duckduckgo.

OK, I'm glad it's not just me. :D

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[–] ZogeLebac@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the map area, I have been trying all of the proposed alternatives but ended up using Magic Earth as my main alternative on Android. For walking, I use OsmAnd+.

[–] Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, I'll check out Magic Earth!

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[–] elver@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

It's contacts syncing that I'm stuck on. Hoping to do something with a box running OMV but I've never come across anything so simple as Google Contacts 😔

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

would you mind if i translate this to my language and use it as a poster?

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[–] beachsquid@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any alternatives for Google Tasks?

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[–] cj2127@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Great list so far! I'd also like to recommend KSuite. They have email services and KDrive for storage.

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