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Infographic on Google Alternatives: Feedback? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines@hexbear.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I created an infographic of privacy-forward alternatives to Google products...and would love your feedback.

Is it easy to use? Enough white space? Intuitive? Sharable? Is there anything I'm missing?

The infographic image in this post is NOT clickable. The link above will give you a downloadable PDF with working hyperlinks.

Re: the legend, "easy set-up/use" means either that this is a big part of the alternative product's branding, or I've used it myself and found it easy.

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[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 15 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

Organic Maps and OpenStreetMap should be listed as map alternatives. Mullvad Leta is a recently popular private search engine.

Google isn't inherently bad; they are bad for privacy but good for security. For that reason, Chromium-based browsers such as Vanadium, Trivalent, or Brave Browser are still good alternatives to Google Chrome even though Chromium (which is the open source base for Chromium-based browsers) is developed by Google.

Also: the "T" in PeerTube should be capitalized.

[–] Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines@hexbear.net 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you, thank you, thank you! If there was one browser from my list you'd replace with Vanadium, which would it be?

[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Epic, only because I've never heard of it so it probably isn't recommended often. I should note that Vanadium is only available on Android and is very difficult to install if you don't use GrapheneOS. Trivalent is only available for a small subset of Linux distros (and comes preinstalled on secureblue). Brave Browser is cross-platform and recommended by GrapheneOS as an alternative to Vanadium if you want specific features Vanadium lacks.

[–] Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines@hexbear.net 2 points 22 hours ago

Thanks! Oh yes, I knew that...I use GrapheneOS myself. I'll check these others out.

[–] Aceivan@hexbear.net 1 points 20 hours ago

osmand uses openstreetmap, its just a polished up android version. Most features I've seen in an open source maps app although I think they were trying to monetize some parts last I heard. openstreetmap on its own is unfortunately a pretty rough substitute for google maps in a lot of common areas (its pretty bad for even looking up addresses), but it is still useful

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What kind of security is google good for?

[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Chromium, as I mentioned, as well as the Android Open Source Project used as the base for GrapheneOS. Their hardware is also very secure, which is why it is used by GrapheneOS. Google Play Store is also one of the most secure app stores for Android, but one of the least private. This is where Google becomes a double edged sword.