Vance Downs
Aug 31, 2018 · 1 min read

I Have De-Googled My life

Google is all-knowing and is used by so many people. Here are my alternatives.

(Google products listed taken from Wikipedia)

Search -> replaced with Startpage

Books -> archive.org and ebooks

Dictionary -> merriam-webster

News-> hackurls and reading less news

Shopping -> Shopbot

Feedburner -> my own rss feed

G Suite (Business version of gmail.com) -> Runbox / Owncloud / Zoho

Blogger -> my own wordpress website, medium, write.as

Bookmarks -> pinboard.in Calendar -> Runbox / Owncloud

Docs -> Owncloud / text files

Domains -> namesilo, that hosting company

Drive -> Owncloud

Hangouts -> text / whatsapp

Gmail -> Runbox

Google URL Shorterner (goo.gl) -> Don’t use any shorterners anymore

Keep -> Evernote / Turtl / text files

Play music -> Spotify

Google+ -> Mastodon, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

Fonts -> same font name but hosted by jsdelivr

App Engine -> Visual Studio Code / text files

PageSpeed Tools -> webpagetest

reCAPTCHA -> no captcha’s used

Maps -> still use somewhat use but also use openstreetmap

Analytics -> Clicky, Matomo

Chrome -> Firefox

Web Designer -> Visual Studio Code / Notepad++

Google Authenticator -> 1password one-time password

Public DNS -> was using Cloudflare but now using dns on vps

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