Congrats dude! 😄 👍 I'm replacing all their service a bit at the time, is nice to see people able to completely switch off.
I have literally everything tied to gmail, no idea how to escape
if you switch to protonmail itll foward emails from your gmail to proton, then you can slowly move stuff over
It's a slow process. Took me 2 and a half year to completely move away from Gmail. Worth it.
Why was it worth it? What benefits did you gain from the change?
I'm a simple man. Just knowing some entity is not munching my mail data is an enough reason for me.
That is quite simple. You're the only one to provide a coherent answer so far so thanks for that.
I'm looking for a bit more info though. Did you get any other benefits besides the equivalent of warm fuzzies? Sounds like an extremely outsized cost/benefit assessment you had to confirm.
Well, while that's the main reason, there are indeed some side benefits as well. I guess the first one that came to my mind is, I got rid of a lot of spams. Mostly because my Gmail address was in lots of breached websites. I also deleted any unnecessary accounts at variety of websites, because of these I haven't been in a breach scandal since 2019 (That's the year I finalized my transition to Tutanota). I use it on my government accounts, banking accounts and any other formal accounts, or the ones I trust. For the rest, I use email alias services and if I get a spam or even an annoying mail through that, I can just stop it there and I forget about them.
Also it's not just warm fuzzies. Privacy is a basic human right and it should stay that way on the internet as well. So it's nice to know to be freed of personalized ads hell, at least from the voluntarily part. Can't really do anything for the involuntarily part besides GDPR. Big corporations getting our personal data is not different from someone watching my house with a binoculars, same level of creepiness. I don't think any sane mind would be comfortable knowing this.
Since I've stop using gmail et reduce the need for a gmail account, Google don't force connexion btw my account and the ones of people I share a computer with. I'm done seeing someone else youtube history bc someone forget to log out of its drive account. By gone the times where my contacts would become mixed up with my friend's who checked its emails on my phone. My children profil are not considered my secondary accounts. I am not receiving notification of one Google product telling my I haven't give full permission to another Google profil anymore. I don't feel like I've take time to configurate my account but thé software disant change its behavior.
I'm no longer forced to use a software or a option I don't want because this other software anable it automatically and that it is almost impossible to turn it off once you've start to use it.
Congrats!
Congratulations! And thank you.
Great step
That’s awesome 👏
Is there a viable Photos alternative? I was thinking of setting up a NAS on my RPi but it would need to be for other family members too.
I use immich personally, super easy to use and very fast, even on the shitty old laptop I use.
Edit: the shitty old laptop is hosting the server
Ente it you're looking for a paid service. (For me, photos are too important to self-host.) They're end-to-end encrypted and both server and clients are open source.
too important to self-host
For me it's the other way round. My photos are too important to trust any corporation - no matter how trustworthy they say they are.
Do you do any hosting on the cloud? Thinking of cases like a fire or flood or something
No I follow the 3-2-1 rule which states that you should have 3 copies in 2 locations where 1 of them is remote.
In my case, the remote part is two external SSDs where I leave one with my parents and the other one plugged into my NAS which does automatic daily backups. When my parents come I swap them around.
TIL, thanks!
I second Ente, absolutely awesome products and great Devs always listening to feedback from community. Unlike other services and products, absolutely everything is open source to 🙌
Another vote for Immich. It's a really nice experience on both the web and app.
The Proton Drive app can automatically sync pictures from your phone. The Proton ecosystem as a whole is a good alternative to Google's.
Next cloud all the way. I run it in my garage and I grab the free Android app from fdroid
I recommend Immich
Has anyone figured out how to transfer a Gmail account's Android app purchases to a new Google account that uses a non Gmail email address? This is the only reason I still keep my Gmail, having moved to proton 4 years ago.
Must do the same soon
BTW How do you keep on syncing your calendars and stuff?
A Linux Wizard does not require a calendar. They simply arrive exactly when they are supposed to.
lol . I'm just a baby tux apprentice ...
I use my self-hosted Nextcloud instance for this. Then sync to mobile using DAVx5. Calendar and contacts.
i think is the best way possible. does it have any charge?
It is all free to use, but you will likely have some expenses with the self-hosting. If you do it yourself at home, you require hardware and power to run it on, and you would be well off having some additional backup solution off-site as well that would add to the cost. If you host on a VPS (like I do), you have the running costs of renting that server space.
I self host with Baikal. On android, you need Davx5 (on fdroid) to tie it into the OS but on your desktop (windows and Linux at least) calDAV will just be an option. Baikal supports CardDAV for contacts as well if you're into that.
Idk I don't have a calendar, but I hear nextcloud is great for that
I use nextcloud for all these google things.
Currently using murena.io as provider
Proton Calendar works great for me.
Nice. What services did you use to replace?
I now use Firefox, brave search, protonmail and immich
Nice I'm like 75% migrated away from gmail I still use Google maps. I don't use Google photos. For search I use ddg. I'm trying to move away from play store using Droid instead but that's a tough one.
you should try aurora store for google play and osmand for google maps
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