De Googlify Your Life

26 Feb 2018, 00:19

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Instead of waiting for this to be “complete”, I am going to release it, and will keep adding to it.

Things you can do to reduce the presence of Google in your life:

Up until now
- Check deseat.me to see what accounts you have online. Stop logging into websites using Google
- Check degooglisons to see what services there are you can use.
- Check your Google activity to see what data Google has stored. You can download all your data.
Going forward
- Ads/Tracking
  - Follow this to stop Google from showing you targeted ads.
  - Switching from Google Chrome (and chromium?) to Firefox
- Search
  - Try switching from Google to duckduckgo or framabee. Right now I am using startpage and unlike duckduckgo, I am happy with it!
  - Install plugins in your browser to stop Google from tracking the URL you click on google-no-tracking-url
- Email
  - Look into replacements for Gmail. ProtonMail and mailbox.org are the two candidates.
  - Look into GPG and encrypting your email in general.
- Maps
  - Keep using Google Maps!
  - Stop the location tracking, you won’t be able to fully turn it off though
- Other services
  - Switch your domain management from Google domains to Namecheap
  - Switch from Google keep to a note taking and syncing via syncthing system
  - Switch your DNS server from Google’s to Dns.watch or OpenNIC