Google & Co Ejector
Is closed source, centralized, privacy invading software still part of your digital life? Eject now and start using user privacy respecting software. This is a small curated collection of awesome FOSS and privacy respecting services, capable of replacing many popular, centralized, privacy invading software services so you can sleep better at night. Stop feeding giant invasive data kraken like Google and Meta - export your data and delete your accounts to stop feeding them your personal data.
Awesome Software
Software that treats you as a human - respectful.
Messenger
- Signal - Privacy focused messenger
- Matrix - end-to-end encrypted, federated, self-hostable
- BitChat - decentralized chat app via bluetooth
- Messenger Comparison
Web Browser:
Firefox, Brave etc. also track their users (with default settings). Test here how trackable your browser is.
- Mullvad - Privacy focused Firefox fork (basically Tor browser without Tor network)
- LibreWolf - Privacy focused Firefox fork
- Ungoogled Chromium - Chromium without Google Services (spy ware)
- Browser Comparison
Search Engine:
- SearX (Code) - Privacy-respecting metasearch engine, self-hostable
- StartPage - Privacy focused search engine
- Search Engine Comparison
E-Mail Provider:
- Protonmail - privacy focused
- TutaMail - privacy focused
- E-Mail Comparison
Global Maps:
- OpenStreetMap - open data, privacy focused
ChatBot:
- Local LLM Apps
- Perplexica - Open source answer engine
- Morphic - Open source answer engine
Shared Docs:
- Fileverse (Code) - end-to-end encrypted, real-time collaborative editing, self-hostable
- Cryptpad (Code) - end-to-end encrypted, real-time collaborative editing, self-hostable
File Sync:
Calendar / Contacts:
Social Network:
- Nostr (Code) - decentralized, self-hostable
- Mastodon (Code) - federated, self-hostable
- Scuttlebutt (Code) - decentralized, self-hostable
Video Platform:
- Invidious - privacy respecting YouTube frontend
- FreeTube - privacy respecting desktop client
- PeerTube (Code) - decentralized, federated, self-hostable
Music:
Multi-Factor Authenticator:
- Ente Auth (Code) - open source
- Proton Authenticator - privacy focused
HTTP(S):
Source Code:
Mobile OS:
Operating System:
Export All Your Google Data
...using https://takeout.google.com/ (optional for Google Photos: GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper) and delete your account.
Converting Google Docs files to Markdown
- Install Pandoc to convert docx to markdown
- Change dir to your Google Drive export: Takeout/Drive
- Create a lua script named fix_underline_links.lua with this content:
function Link(el)
local content = el.content
if #content == 1 and content[1].t == "Underline" then
content = content[1].content
end
return pandoc.Link(content, el.target)
end
- Run this bash command to convert:
$ find . -name "*.docx" -type f -exec sh -c 'pandoc "$0" -o "${0%.docx}.md" --extract-media=./images/ --lua-filter=fix_underline_links.lua' {} \;
- Remove all docx files:
$ find . -type f -name "*.docx" -delete
Export Your Twitter (X) Data
TODO: Replace Instagram
How to remove your data from Zuckerberg and backup it up to host it privacy focused.
Glossary
End-to-end encrypted means your data is en- & decrypted only on your machine, resulting in maximum security with maximum responsibility (password loss equals data loss).
Self-hostable means anyone can run the software by themselves and thus maintain control of their data independently of any central authority.
Decentralized means the software does not need to communicate over the internet with a central server in order to work, instead it is capable of communicating independently via peer-to-peer based networking (very useful when dealing with limited internet availability or censoring governments).
Federated means instances of the software build a so called "fediverse" allowing users to communicate across instances.