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Below is a list of privacy-friendly (mostly open source) alternatives to Google’s products.
Email me at rpsa@protonmail.com to add alternatives.
| Google products | Alternatives |
|---|---|
| Google Chrome | Firefox Brave ungoogled-chromium |
| Google Search | StartPage |
| Google Maps | OpenStreetMap |
| Google Analytics | Matomo OpenWebAnalytics Plausible |
| Google Chrome Passwords | Keepass Bitwarden Firefox Lockwise Leepass Butter cup Keeweb KeepassX Psono |
| Google Docs | Any suggestions? |
| Google Translate | DeepL |
| Google News | Winds |
| Google Messages | Signal |
| Google Mail | ProtonMail Tutanota |
| Google Photos | Piwigo |
| Google Keep | Standard Notes Simple Note Joplin Mak ink Mak |
| YouTube | PeerTube |
| Google Blogger | Ghost Gohugo Blot Jekyll |
| Google DNS | Cloudflare |
| Google Drive | NextCloud |
| Google Meet | Jitsi Meet |
| Google Voice | Mycroft |
| Google Scholar | arXiv |
| Google Contacts | NextCloud Mail apps |
| Google Calendars | NextCloud |
| Google Groups | Discourse |
| Google Ads | Any suggestions? |
| Google Alerts | Any suggestions? |
| Google Slides | Any suggestions? |
| Google Flights | Any suggestions? |
| Google Finance | Any suggestions? |
| Google Weather | Any suggestions? |
| Google Sheets | Any suggestions? |
Funnily enough, Google’s former motto was: “Don’t be evil.” They dropped it from their code of conduct in 2018…
There are a lot more privacy-friendly products and apps you can use! Here is a list.