I feel like #degoogle seems to embody a greater movement to leave bigtech. Here are the crazy things I’ve done over the last month or so.
- Installed Arch on my laptop about a month ago
- re-engaged my Mastodon and Bluesky while deleting Twitter and unfriending everyone on Facebook
- Installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel
- Moved email to custom domain and Tuta from Gmail
- Moved to NextCloud in place of Google Drive
- Moved photos from Google Photos to Ente Photos
- Moved my PKM and Notes to Logseq
- Moved from Chome and Google Search to Firefox, Tor and DuckDuckGo
- Just deleted Reddit and started a Lemmy account.
It’s been a ride and I’m open to other suggestions and guides.
I’d use Firefox too… LibreOffice to get an office suite. DuckDuckGo is still feeding Google - sadly.
What alternative would you suggest over DuckDuckGo? I’m always looking to learn more.
There’s plenty… Most of those I use is on this list… Remember that even DDG could be giving away private info, through fingerprints or other means… I use more search engines, to spread my risk.
I like searxng, you can self hosted and its very private. It will pull all results from google, duckduckgo, bing, etc.