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Ask HN: What are alternatives to Google products?

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With growing concerns over online privacy and securing personal data, I am looking for alternatives to Google products.

Email: Drive: Search engine: Photos: Calendar: Browser: Map: Google docs: YouTube: Android OS: Et cetra:

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https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/ (discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280558)

https://nomoregoogle.com/ was discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078030

There are no real alternative to YouTube. For search i find bing not bad when I need objective (not biased) results.

d.tube, bitchute and other p2p are natural replacements for youtube

i use yandex for image search

There are plenty of alternatives for submitting videos, but YouTube has the content. The best option, IMO, is to consume YouTube videos in a way that doesn't track or monetize you, such as NewPipe (Android) and YouTube downloader.

Personally, I just don't watch YouTube much and prefer other entertainment sources. I read news on personal blogs, link aggregators (like HN), and newspaper sites, I have a streaming subscription, play video games, read books, etc. If I want to share a video with friends/family, I either email it or send a link to my NextCloud instance.

The hardest things for me to switch from has been Gmail and Google Docs, just because I have so much stuff already there.

> has the content

You mean , attracts the content, because it's not their own. Youtube in the end is a service for submitting video, and other competitors may disrupt them if the p2p model works well in the future.

I think OP was speaking of the userbase + what the users submit. It's the same problem when you want to switch to a "privacy-oriented" chat client. What's the point of being alone to chat, when most of your social network is elsewhere and doesn't want to move a toe?

while twitter & FB have a strong network effect, i am not friends with anyone on youtube, and even the subcriptions are not too many

I also don't have friends or many subscriptions on YouTube, but the videos I can find on it are amazing, and that's due to their network effect as well. It drives me to search for stuff on YouTube before other places.

There's also LBRY[1] where apparently many YouTubers moved to[2].

For reverse image search, there's TinEye[3], which had it before Google.

[1] https://lbry.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20347870

[3] https://tineye.com/

For marketing, it is difficult to find an alternative because everyone uses Google products, so it is the best way to advertise to a wide audience. The problem is that when Google closes your account, you are in a terrible situation.

My biggest anti-Google is Zoho. They provide me Email, Drive, Docs/Sheets/Presentations, a full CRM, etc.

As far as browser, on Windows I suggest Pale Moon, and on *Nix I suggest GNU IceWeasel-UXP.

Maps, I'd go for OSM (Open Street Map).

YouTube: PeerTube

OS: I do not know.

Search: Exalead or DuckDuckGo.

everything has been mentioned. i just want to add email.cz + emailprofi.seznam.cz for email on custom domains. both free.

I was stunned that Seznam offered that and tried it as well - it works very well indeed. I wish it had SPIF/DKIM support though.

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