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I switched to DuckDuckGo - it isn’t as good as google, but it is 90% of what I need. For the rest I have to slightly tweak my search criteria - but that is not a bad thing because it forces me to use my little gray cells.

YouTube and Gmail substitutes and then I am Google free.

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Have you looked at protonmail and Vimeo? Both have somewhat of a free offering, although the main product is a few bucks. You know what they say about that though, you being the product and all.

For maps, check out openstreetmaps. Not quite as good as google, buy pretty solid. And you can run your own instance.

Heck, you could also run your own email without much hassle.

Zoho is also good. For business users (custom domain), they have a 20 user free tier, which is really good for a startup/small company.

Protonmail does have a free offering as well if their mail service

What do you use for maps?

https://www.openstreetmap.org/

https://wego.here.com

Huh got me there.

I have started to trust Apple maps - not as good as Google though.

Hope this gets commodotized though.

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