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Only if you choose to. There are alternatives for everything Google offers.

https://tuta.com/blog/degoogle-list

Europe specific: https://european-alternatives.eu/

Canada specific: https://engageq.notion.site/unplug-full

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The problem is. There is always something that breaks no matter what we do.. banking apps straight up refuse to work sometimes. And many services don't work even with MicroG

I don't use any Google products, although I am invested in the Mac and iOS ecosystem until something better comes along. Firefox, FastMail, Apple Photos combined with https://immich.app/ , etc. Youtube videos are ripped into my own storage system for viewing and storage using yt-dlp.

What Google service do you feel like you cannot replace with a private or open alternative?

Damn bro I just noticed your karma , not trying to start a casual chat here but man you are really contributing here!

Everyone has a vice, this is mine.

I'm talking about literally "Google play services" , it cannot be replaced for now , apple is different that's an entirely different ecosystem. The apps aren't the problem the problem is Google play services itself isn't effectively replaceable with anything else (as I mentioned in the previous message)

And because of that Google apps don't work , banking apps too any anything that needs security as well.

Replacing 90% is better than 0%

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