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De-Google Your Life - Part 1 - YouTube LTT (youtu.be)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Google services I still use before being unGoogled:

Voice: I have to make like 1 or 2 calls within the US a year & not worth a SIM
Maps: for when OSM isn’t cutting it & I’ll contribute the missing data after I found it
Translate: for when Yandex Translate doesn’t cut it (everything ‘free’ only works with European languages)
YouTube: no real alternative here that isn’t limited to just a piece of its scope, but viewed thru Librewolf+uBlock Origin+SponsorBlock or PipePipe

… and the last one is just basically every employer I have worked with puts all their company data on Google & it can’t really be avoided with them >:(

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Can't help but mention Yandex is 100% as evil as Google is.

Out of popular choices, DeepL is probably least evil. Reverso is often a nice pick, too, especially Reverso Context.

There are also things like LibreTranslate, though the quality is generally lower (but can absolutely come in handy for simpler requests)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yandex might be the same as Google, but spreading your footprint across services still has value as a technique for mitigation. The only other thing I use Yandex for is the occasional image search since it can sometimes do a better job than others.