• toastal@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Google services I still use before being unGoogled:

    1. Voice: I have to make like 1 or 2 calls within the US a year & not worth a SIM
    2. Maps: for when OSM isn’t cutting it & I’ll contribute the missing data after I found it
    3. Translate: for when Yandex Translate doesn’t cut it (everything ‘free’ only works with European languages)
    4. YouTube: no real alternative here that isn’t limited to just a piece of its scope, but viewed thru Librewolf+uBlock Origin+SponsorBlock or PipePipe

    … and the last one is just basically every employer I have worked with puts all their company data on Google & it can’t really be avoided with them >:(

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      5 months ago

      Can’t help but mention Yandex is 100% as evil as Google is.

      Out of popular choices, DeepL is probably least evil. Reverso is often a nice pick, too, especially Reverso Context.

      There are also things like LibreTranslate, though the quality is generally lower (but can absolutely come in handy for simpler requests)