Living a Google-Free Digital Life: The Why and the How
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
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Over the past several years, I've been slowly moving away from Google Services. This includes Google Search, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chrome, and more.
In this video, I share a little bit about why I decided to leave Google and where I've gone. I share ten Google services that make up 95% of my Google usage and talk about the best alternatives and what I'm personally using.
This is a little bit different than some of my other videos. But I've mentioned leaving Google in past videos and wanted to answer all the related questions I've been receiving.
If you like this, and want to see more content, please let me know by liking, commenting, subscribing, or otherwise making yourself heard.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:24 Why I'm leaving Google services
3:31 What it takes for me to leave a Google service
4:39 Categorizing services I'm leaving
5:30 Google Search (Kagi)
7:01 Gmail (Proton Mail)
8:06 Chrome (Orion)
9:29 Google Photos (PhotoPrism)
10:59 Google Calendar (iCal)
11:52 Google Drive (Synology NAS)
12:55 Google Maps (Apple Maps)
14:16 Google Docs (ButterDocs)
14:42 Google Analytics (Plausible, Matomo)
15:05 UA-cam (irreplaceable, for now...)
15:31 Outro
Links from this video:
- Kagi - kagi.com
- Proton Mail - proton.me
- Orion Browser - kagi.com/orion/
- PhotoPrism - github.com/photoprism/photoprism
- Synology - www.synology.com/en-us
- Butter Docs - www.butterdocs.com
- Plausible - plausible.io
- Matomo - matomo.org
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Thanks for watching!
Best UA-camr no doubt 🙌 keep em coming!
Thank you!
Thanks for covering this topic! For a long while, I've been thinking about leaving as much of Google behind as possible but haven't really done anything about it. You've motivated me!
Love this topic...and very happy you chose to cover and share it.
Dann, muito bom os seus vídeos. Onde você está? Não postou mais nas últimas semanas. Utilizo a tradução automática do UA-cam nos seus vídeos aqui no Brasil.
Replacing Google maps with an apple maps seems like a bit of a sideways move. Lots degoogled android type phones, Linux is available for purests, totally doable. Reminds of when I went vegan difficult at first but I don't even think about now. Definitely will give this consideration. Thanks 👍
Replacing Google Maps with Apple Maps is only a sideways move if your motivation is to decouple yourself from large corporations. I don't really care about that...I just wanted to move away from Google. So in that sense, I succeeded!
Hope you enjoy some of the replacements you've found.
Thanks for the video. I also want to escape Google captivity. But it’s sticky and hard to break out for sure. I use google docs a lot and also use Butterdocs, which I like but it does not replace Google docs. I wish Apple equivalent was better but its not. I tried Proton but without a writing app like Docs I couldnt do it. I really wish some big company could challenge Google, and I dont understand why not. Anyways thanks for the video. We need to talk more about things like this.
Yeah, Google Docs is such a difficult one for competitors to beat, it seems. I’m also waiting for a solid alternative. Bummer that ButterDocs isn’t there yet. Maybe Apple will improve over time? Fingers crossed.
I came to the same kind of conclusion and canot really get away from G completely
What services are you still using?
I have had this want to leave Google for a while, but I am too hooked into a lot of things, so reading the title of your video I thought "alright, here's someone who has done it. let's hear it" - but then you are basically still with Google across the board. As far as them getting your data and you are the customer, they don't need to you to be on gmail as long as you are on pretty much every other thing of theirs.
You're not living "google-free" at all.
Don't get me wrong, I am not blaming you. I'm exactly the same.
I disagree that I’m still using Google “across the board.” I’m completely off Google Search, Gmail, and Google Calendar. I no longer use a Google browser. All my files are stored on a NAS instead of Drive. All my personal writing happens in Obsidian.
There are a handful of minor Google services I still use, sure, but I see a clear path off them if I want (and shared that in the video).
For me, it’s not about withholding all my personal data from Google’s clutches. But rather removing dependence for all Google’s key services, which I definitely have done.
I’m curious how you see my current level of Google use as still being “across the board.”
@@DannBerg
Yes, but Google has you if you are only on ONE of their services, and you have several that you are "sort of" off, but not really. If your intention is to be "off the grid" as it were, at least from Google, the truth is that they still have you. Being part of more of their services just makes it easier for them to track you. They still track you.
Point being, you are still the product.
@@tubehenry I never wanted to be off-the-grid in terms of Google. I more think it's about conscious consumption. There are a few select Google tools where I'm still trading my data for a free service. But all the key services in my digital world are now non-Google.
I also outline a very short path I could take to get there, if I really wanted to. And thus, could be followed by anyone watching.