what are the best Google alternative apps ?

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    Google search - Start page

    Gmail - Proton Mail

    Google Drive - MEGA

    Youtube- Newpipe

    YouTube music - Black hole or Musify

    Pixel Phones - Pine64 (Linux phone)

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      Isn’t Newpipe just a frontend to YouTube? It’s better for privacy, sure, but it still technically supports YouTube.

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      Would recommend self hosting the drive aspect, cheaper and you retain your own information all the while.

      Pixel phones are fine with a custom OS. Linux phones are horrible both with user interface and battery life.

      Instead of black hole (which has horrible catalog of music) or Musify, just selfhost Deemix+Navidrome.

      Instead of startpage use something more reputable like qwant or duckduckgo.

      Proton can be debatable because of it’s past, though they have since fixed it. Alternatives include : tutanota, mailbox.org, etc. Alot of good email alternatives exist.

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        can you expand a little on protons past? I haven’t heard about it. I’m trying to decide what email service to go with currently since I just bought a domain and I wanted to use it with my new non-googled email

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          Protonmail doesn’t have a past of bad behaviour per se - they do comply with legal subpoenas from the Swiss authorities (they are based there) but as emails are user-key encrypted and they don’t keep a copy of the user key, the most they can provide is IP addresses and dates.

          There was some stuff that went down with regards to a French activist but nothing that puts Protonmail at fault (again, legally binding court order, they literally had no choice)

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        Dont know how to host. If someone can make a guide, I would love to host all my stuff. I am not sure about using Duckduckgo as anything US based is a big red flag. As a EU citizen, I would prefer search engine hosted in EU.