We're reaching the end of an era wherein billions of dollars of investor money was shovelled into tech startups to build large user-bases, and now those companies (now monoliths) are beginning to constrict their user-bases and squeeze for every single penny they can possibly extract. Fair or not.
Now more than ever, it's important for us to step back and reconsider whether we want to be billboards for these companies anymore.
For anyone unfamiliar, some good resources to have when starting your degoogling journey are below:
Privacy Guides - A list of privacy-respecting services you can use.
Plexus - A crowdsourced information bank of service compatibility with degoogled devices.
This random PDF - A study from 2018 detailing data that Google tracks about its' users.
so far i've done:
gmail - iredmail
youtube - peertube for my stuff, invidious to watch yt google search - searxng
google news - miniflux
drive and photos - nextcloud
chat - matrix
google play music/yt music - funkwhale
there's probably others just can't think of them. i still have an android phone and still use maps, google play store, and google voice.