I deleted my google accounts today

Now, send a gpdr deletion request because Google still has your data.

Do you have any guides or tips?

Would you be able to let us know the services you used, the replacements, and how did the migration process work?

Welcome to the club.

Good job. Do Microsoft and Amazon next.

I want to delete mine too, but I use GMail and I have not found a good alternative yet. Tutanota doesn't have Thunderbird support and ProtonMail has, but only on paid accounts. I really want to use Thunderbird because it is such a great email client.

Welcome to the real world.

This is a daunting proposition, I'm admittedly massively invested in Google's ecosystem. Gmail and Google calendar, I have a pixel phone, watch and buds and have YouTube premium. I feel like the time I switch is when I have a homelab and am able to find open source alternatives to everything heavily use and be able to do so with all devices I use.

Hi,

Trying to do it myself but I'm stuck with YouTube.

I mean, I need a gmail account to pay for the Premium sub. And then, most creators are still using YouTube not the few alternatives... How do you guys do?

I'm building up to doing the same. Already using Protonmail and Kagi. Looking for a less Google-dependent phone to switch over to and then I might pull the plug myself.

I'm considering it. Youtube just removed a comment of mine calling an elon simp a cracker for "harassment"

Really it's just about the last straw, they passively protect billionaires but will let outright hate speech stay up. They also advertise nazis.

Well done!

I ended up keeping mine for occasional things like leaving YT comments or subscribing to Firebase-distributed apps.

Any suggestions on starting this process? I have a Raspberry Pi and was looking into self-hosted Google Drive/Photos/Gmail replacement. Best FOSS replacements?

I can't wait to graduate college so I can stop using my Google account. I still have to use mine for the online office suite. I use LibreOffice if it's just me but I have to collaborate and do group assignments on Google Docs and Slides too.

Welcome to the degoogled fold 🤗

It's a nice journey, and you can also start to look into proxmox for self hosting things. It really feels amazing to have your own little lab of stuff rather than using the public web for all services.

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Congratulations

Anyone have any alternatives to Voice?

Congrats!

Boffo!

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What do you do if you have an android phone?

I didn't, but I did all the other privacy things and as a result Google locked me out of my accounts so its basically the same thing

Exclusively Tutanota/Proton?

I'm only keeping mine to be able to pay for YouTube premium.

about time 😊 that’s not the goal; one of the first basic steps!

EDIT Sorry I should not have said it like this. Even though that was my honest feelings, said as free speech without any meany connotations, this should have been treated as good news, like someone finally ditched Windows.

One of the next steps might be to figure out how not to load GA.js GTM.js Google Fonts etc.

There is a long way to go to de-Google oneself, and unfortunately it’s not easy nor trivial. One subtle example: Google is a broker of Tor Snowflake, which could cause a difficult dilemma.

Six months and they will be restored by you, don't worry 😃