“How to Live Without Google”

TLDR:

Google Search -> DuckDuckGo (free)

Gmail, Calendar & Contacts -> FastMail (paid)

YouTube -> Vimeo (free with paid options)

Google Maps -> Apple Maps (free), OpenStreetMap (free)

Google Drive -> Resilio Sync (free with paid options)

Android -> iOS (paid)

Google Chrome -> Safari (free), Firefox (free), Brave (free)

Blogger -> Ghost (paid), WordPress (free with paid options)

Google Hangouts -> Zoom (free with paid options), appear.in (free with paid option)

Google Allo -> Signal (free)

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A few years ago when I was pissed at Google for a penalization (seriously, when you get penalized, and you are using Google's search on your website, it doesn't work), so I had switched to DuckDuckGo for a while for my search engine. And eventually I went back to just using good ol' PHP & MySQL for search.

Anyways, in a fit of rage, I had come up with a list of alternatives as well to get away from Google. Love-hate relationship with Google since they do provide most of the traffic. So we're on good terms again.. but Google decides your trends.. some months they may send me 200-300 visitors a day, and others up to 600.

http://confessionsoftheprofessions.com/alternatives-using-go...

I'm using DDG, ProtonMail, locally saved documents (because I don't need the cloud for the stuff I'm doing), Firefox Developer Edition, which has gotten so much better recently that I don't miss Chrome. Blogs/ personal websites are are static sites on Github pages or similar services. I have a crappy old iPhone4.

Google Search hardly ever finds the stuff I'm looking for these days, so I'm relying on it less and less.

I can't quite figure out how to give up Gmail. It has been my primary email address since Gmail launched. Also, my Gmail address is my Apple ID and that is set in stone AFAICT.

recently i've installed duck duck go as default search engine in mozilla browser, I need to change my behaviour first before totally move on.

Unless you're living in a place where Google is not available (i.e., China), why would you try to live without Google?