A while ago, I wrote a post on Alternative to Google Docs and Google sheets. It posed the question of why, in the twenty-twenties (indeed, in the twenty-first century), anyone is still using Google's so-called "convenient" and "free" (but actually not free) services for anything when privacy-protecting and/or anonymous alternatives exist, even if they charge for the services provided. No, seriously, why?

Shamefully, I admit that I still have Google and Yahoo! accounts, mainly because I haven't swapped over all my newsletter subscriptions (which I don't read anyway) and other spam-collecting entries to ProtonMail, which I have been using for years already. It seems like a task too onerous for me to complete, given my lack of motivation to do anything other than sit at my computer and pass the time in fun ways (such as lurking on CVN, learn new languages/frameworks or write apps and tools that benefit me directly, not that I do much of the latter).

Today, while skipping through videos instead of learning Docker, MariaDB and Python with Kivy in Android Studio, for building a mobile app to cater to my latest project idea, I came across a video from Linus Tech Tips, one that feeds on that initial post of mine.

In that vein, today I'm summarising a video from Linus Tech tips, a "Part 1" video that seems to have no subsequent parts, perhaps because it's posted on YouTube (a Website owned by Google, of course), of all places and Linus hasn't got round to finding a YT alternative on which to post ...

For those who want to watch the video, I've embedded it below, because Pub0x allows me to do that. I'm not sure if I can embed videos from sites like BitChute, Odysee or PeerTube, since I haven't tried to use the "Insert Media" option, nor investigated those options to find one I like. I know that I should, but there is only so much time and a great many distractions. Then again, a quick search for "Linus Tech Tips Degoogle Your Life" (using Presearch, of course), didn't turn up anything other than the video on YT, which isn't surprising, just disappointing.

Am I the only one whom thinks a piece about getting rid of Google posted on one of Google's platforms is short-sighted and shooting oneself in the foot in the long run, or is LTT only paying lip service to the idea?

Here, then, is a summary of recommendations, in list form:

• Google Chrome: Brave/Firefox/Tor Browser Bundle/Ungoogled Chromium
• Google Search Engine: Brave Search/Ecosia/Kagi/Qwant/Startpage
• Gmail: Hushmail/ProtonMail/Railfence/Tutanota (I have no idea if any of these work with Thunderbird/Icedove.)
• Google Drive/Picasa: Ente/NextCloud/ProtonDrive/Stingle
• DNS: AdGuard/MullvadDNS/NextDNS
• VPN: Mullvad/OpenVPN/ProtonVPN