There's no mention of Google Voice. I've been hooked on it for 12 years, with my primary phone number being a Google Voice number for the last 10 years.<p>I've started using a lot of the suggested applications and services - Firefox, DuckDuckGo, Flickr - instead of Google's in recent years. I'm still using Gmail because changing my primary email seems like it would be a pain, but at least I can see that there are some strong competitors for email. Voice, on the other hand, seems like a pretty unique offering.
Almost none of those are viable alternatives. They're either not free when Google is, a lot more expensive, or have a lot less features.<p>And recommending Microsoft products or apps owned by the CCP as an alternative to Google products is simply ridiculous.<p>I would understand going from Google to open source products, even though I am not an open source fanatic, but going from Google to another privately owned for-profit company makes no sense. Is this written by a guy bitter to have been laid of by Google or something like this?
Maps is the only Google service I am hooked on. I use it to get around (both on foot and via public transport) but also to find places to eat and drink when I am in a new area. I love OSM as a project and have contributed to it but it just doesn't compare.<p>Other than that, for me it's mailbox.org for Gmail and Nextcloud hosted on a VPS for Drive and Calendar.
All easy except:<p>- Youtube —> can’t get around it<p>- Maps —> in few cases where apple maps is just not good enough (depends on where you live)<p>Don’t miss anything else 1sec!
I've been hooked on some Google services since 2010 when I got a Nexus One phone. I liked the calendar and contacts because they were accessible from my other devices. I ported a few of my phone numbers to Google Voice shortly afterward and I liked being able to access voicemail and SMS from my other devices.<p>Sometime last year I noticed that Google Calendar was acting up with Thunderbird so I decided to migrate my calendar and contacts to Owncloud (<a href="https://owncloud.com/" rel="nofollow">https://owncloud.com/</a>). That migration went very smoothly and I've had no trouble accessing my contacts/calendar from desktop, Android, and iOS. Everything works great, and Thunderbird no longer has problems.<p>To get completely off of Google's tit, I need to migrate my Google Voice to something else. I can migrate them to NumberBarn, but that doesn't take care of the spam filtering. Maybe I can use NoMoRobo...
- Docs/Slides -> Canva
- Sites -> Canva
- Photos -> potentially in the future... Canva<p>- Browser -> Brave or Firefox<p>I'm curious if people think it is suggested to move away from Chromium completely, or just Google's Chrome?
I think Plausible should also be mentioned as a great analytics alternative. It's open source with a paid saas option.<p><a href="https://plausible.io/" rel="nofollow">https://plausible.io/</a>