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I am slowly switching back to Firefox since Google are nerfing ad blockers in Chromium. I'm switching to DuckDuckGo since their search results have become almost unusably bad recently. Unfortunately though, there it's no usuable replacements for the rest of the Google ecosystem as far as my use case is concerned. I'd even ditch Android if there were a reasonable alternative.
I don't understand why people find DuckDuckGo a good alternative. It's better for privacy yes, but the search results are just as useless and unrelated because they're based on Google which is just a big ad server now. Every result is find 10 "XYZ's" on Amazon or Walmart, or the other results for different companies.
Duck duck go is based on Bing, not Google.
Well still explains why it's so bad. Bing is just as bad with paid results, to the point it has to pay people to try to get them to use it.
Google Search -> Duckduckgo
Google Android -> Graphene OS, Callyx OS, Lineage (all are more or less degoogelt android. the former 2 really easy to install. Havent tried lineage for a while)
Google drive -> nextcloud
Google maps -> open streetmap (osmand+, organic maps etc) and for navigation with live updates magic earth
Google mail -> proton mail, posteo, ....
Chrome -> firefox
What else do you use from Google?
In the past years all these non Google products have evolved a lot. 10years ago one needed to be a nerd and spend a lot of time to implement all this but now its really easy to switch, user interfaces and documentations improved a lot.
Youtube, sadly no viable alternatives with the same amount of great content.
open streetmap and magic earth have the disadvantage that public transit it not supported. For that i use the local public transit apps. That works very well and shows in most cases more alternatives to the current route than google can
It's almost like you didn't read my post at all...
Then I misinterpreted you. I read unfortunately there are no Google alternatives except for browser and thought you would be happy to hear there are alternatives. Especially since you mentioned Google android. And I am so happy using degoogelt android.... sorry for misunderstanding.
You missed the "for my use case" part. I won't go into all the details, but browser and search are pretty much the only things that I can ditch at the moment.
Unfortunately, degoogled Android is still... Android. That OS has been made considerably less fun and enjoyable over the last few years by Google themselves, regardless of any of their additional services. :(