Comment by robin_reala
2 days ago
I degoogled back when they announced AMP email, and am in broad agreement with the author here. The only things I’ve found it hard to replace are YouTube, Arts & Culture, Google Books, and Books ngrams. Everything else has great alternatives to move to 100%, and Books is just a backup alongside archive.org and Hathi.
Even if you just stop using one piece of Google you’ll find yourself in a better place.
What do you look for in Arts & Culture? I find https://www.getdailyart.com/ pretty great if you are mostly just interested in painting.
I produce book for Standard Ebooks, and they need cover art.[1] Arts & Culture is a good source, but I also use Wikimedia Commons and some museum sites directly.
[1] https://standardebooks.org/artworks
What have you done for email?
I ended up at Soverin. Luckily I was already using Gmail with my own domain, so I could switch without having to change addresses.
https://soverin.com/
For me, Fastmail has been incredible.
I concur on Fastmail. I only keep a "legacy" Gmail account for parental tech support.