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Comment by gjadi | Hacker News Reader

If your threat is google, it would be wise not to use google in the first place.

As other mentioned, OSM is an alternative (not equivalent) of Google Maps.

If only there was a drop in replacement for Google Workspace… even if you use Fastmail for email you don’t have Google docs anymore and that’s a huge piece…

The worse problem is you give Maps location permissions and that can translate now to the 3 billion sites that use Analytics isn't it?

No, google-analytics.com is where analytics is being served from and sends tracking-requests to.

It also connects to https://stats.g.doubleclick.net/j/collect

I believe that's only if the GA account is connected to an Ads account (or set up to collect demographics, I think). By itself, GA will only use https://www.google-analytics.com/j/collect (or /g/collect for GA4).

You might want to check out:

https://framapad.org/abc/ (this organisation has a lot of FLOSS cloud alternatives to Google products)

https://cryptpad.fr/

thanks!

Unfortunately it seems there is only text editing, not spreadsheets or forms (those I use a lot)

But I'll look into it, and probably transfer my docs there

It is important to use user respecting software when we can :)

sorry, my bad, cryptpad seems to have it all!

drop in replacement for Google Workspace?

has everybody forgotten it was replacing Microsoft?

Office365, Zoho, there are many options.

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