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[–] Highsight@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I used AI to summarize the different Google products and services listed in the video along with their suggested alternatives and timestamps. AI is pretty cool sometimes.

Google Product/Service Recommended Alternatives Timestamp
Google Chrome Firefox, Brave, Arc, Ungoogled Chromium 94-326
Google Search Startpage, Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, Kagi 328-493
Gmail Tutanota, ProtonMail 534-671
Google Photos Ente, Stingle 674-794
Google DNS Quad9, NextDNS, Cloudflare 827-1074
Google Analytics Not covered in this video, to be discussed in part 2 N/A
Google Maps To be covered in part 2 N/A
Google Ad Services To be covered in part 2 N/A
Google Drive To be covered in part 2 N/A
YouTube To be covered in part 2 N/A
[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 3 points 5 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I want to get off Google photos, but I also don't want to pay a subscription. And I don't really want to self host. A pay once service I'd accept, but I haven't seen one with an extremely cursory search. I don't need any fancy features. Just store the photos, let me see them online, and let me put them in albums.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

Hosting pictures cost money

[–] Bruhh@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If its free, then you are the product. Can't really expect to switch to another free product and expect any form of privacy. You could try Microsoft's One Drive but it isn't much different. I've been recommending Ente Photos which is a subscription but it's worth it for me. About 3 or 4 bucks a month for 50GB.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If its free, then you are the product

Right. I get that. But I'd like to just pay once. I don't like subscriptions. But since file storage has ongoing costs, it seems unlikely anyone would offer a pay-once-and-we'll-host-your-files.

[–] Bruhh@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

There is pcloud and filen.io both have lifetime plans but I'm not sure how close you can get to something like Google Photos or Ente Photos with these providers.

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