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I've got the following table from here but later tested some options, found other solutions. So I edited it and extended.

Need Say No to Good alternatives
E-Mail GMail Proton Mail, Tuta
Office Google Docs LibreOffice, OnlyOffice
Data sharing Google Drive Dropbox, Filen
Photo storage Google Photos Immich (https://immich.app/docs/install/docker-compose, https://github.com/imagegenius/docker-immich/)
Video meetings Google Meet ?
Maps Google Maps Magic Earth, Here, something OSM-based (OpenStreetMap) - Organic Maps (iOS)
Browser Safari, Edge, Google Chrome Floorp (Firefox based)
Search Google, Bing Qwant, SearXNG
Chat WhatsApp, Slack Signal, Matrix, IRC*, Zulip
Photo editing Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop Capture One, Darktable, ? GIMP, Affinity
Play my music Plex, USB AIMP
Discover music YouTube Music Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer, ?
TV shows, Movies Amazon Prime, Apple, Netflix Read books
Sport tracker Nike Run Club, Runna, Strava Running Page

IRC: Kiwi IRC https://hybridirc.com/embedding/ https://github.com/kiwiirc/kiwiirc/wiki/Configuration

Other big company services

  • Reddit -> Lemmy (List)
  • Jira / Asana / Trello -> Taiga or Tenzu
  • Asana

Other free tools

Something less known as GIMP or blender and not specifically a Google's counterpart but some remarkable free software that frees you from online services.

  • KeeWeb is a browser and desktop password manager
  • Donetick - todolist

Other steps

Export Firefox history (sqlite file) with

  • Nir Soft tool
  • or simply DB Browser for SQLite

and export as CSV (ready for Excel... LIbreCalc ;) )

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