De-Googling: Taking back your digital life

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Work in progress

This post is a placeholder — full content coming soon.

The plan is to document the process of removing Google’s services from day-to-day life: moving email, calendar, search, photos, and cloud storage to self-hosted or privacy-respecting alternatives.

Topics to cover:

  • Why bother (and why it’s harder than it sounds)
  • Email: Migrating away from Gmail
  • Search: life after Google Search
  • Photos: self-hosted alternatives
  • Calendar & contacts: CalDAV/CardDAV
  • DNS: blocking trackers at the network level