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Just deleted my Google account!!! (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Blisterexe@lemmy.zip to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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I haven't used it much if at all in the past year, but I finally took the last step and deleted it! Sorry if this is low effort I just don't have anyone I know to share it with.

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[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Congrats dude! 😄 👍 I'm replacing all their service a bit at the time, is nice to see people able to completely switch off.

[+] iarigby@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 years ago

if you switch to protonmail itll foward emails from your gmail to proton, then you can slowly move stuff over

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can probably (never used proton) set up a filter on the new address to mark or move stuff that was originally sent to gmail, too. Helps visualize the accounts you need to migrate/update.

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

It does that automatically

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago

It's a slow process. Took me 2 and a half year to completely move away from Gmail. Worth it.

[-] joenforcer@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Why was it worth it? What benefits did you gain from the change?

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

I'm a simple man. Just knowing some entity is not munching my mail data is an enough reason for me.

[-] joenforcer@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

not being tied to G🤮🤮gle
some other stuff like email aliases (Protonmail)

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago

Congrats!

[-] mike_wooskey@lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com 8 points 2 years ago

Congratulations! And thank you.

[-] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Great step

[-] wagoner@infosec.pub 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] mjq07@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Huschke@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Sunny@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

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 🙌

[-] dracs@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Another vote for Immich. It's a really nice experience on both the web and app.

[-] yeehaw_cosmonaut@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago

The Proton Drive app can automatically sync pictures from your phone. The Proton ecosystem as a whole is a good alternative to Google's.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

On that note tho, I kinda hate how this is only offered for photos. Why can't I sync any folder I want?

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Next cloud all the way. I run it in my garage and I grab the free Android app from fdroid

[-] spez_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I recommend Immich

[-] dpflug@hachyderm.io 2 points 2 years ago

@mjq07
https://stingle.org, https://piwigo.org, and https://immich.app might be worth a look.

I used NextCloud, myself.
@Blisterexe @degoogle

[-] Fizz 2 points 2 years ago

Nice. What services did you use to replace?

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago

I now use Firefox, brave search, protonmail and immich

[-] Fizz 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

you should try aurora store for google play and osmand for google maps

[-] guilhermegnzaga@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 years ago

BTW How do you keep on syncing your calendars and stuff?

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I use my self-hosted Nextcloud instance for this. Then sync to mobile using DAVx5. Calendar and contacts.

[-] guilhermegnzaga@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 years ago

i think is the best way possible. does it have any charge?

[-] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

Idk I don't have a calendar, but I hear nextcloud is great for that

[-] jaagruk@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

I use nextcloud for all these google things.

Currently using murena.io as provider

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