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I deleted my google accounts today (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by mertn@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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It took a few months preparation but I deleted all my google accounts today, and it feels good.

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[–] stinkycheese@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do you have any guides or tips?

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A lot of (all?) email services will allow you to forward your mail from Gmail. My advice would be set that up, have all of them going to a specific folder, and only use your new email moving forward. No harm in allowing some email forwarding while you adjust for the next 6 to 12 months. But that way you can also immediately stop using Gmail itself.

Gdrive unless it is really baked into your daily life in a complicated way, it’s pretty easy to replace. Lots of great services out there.

Proton mail allowed me to export my Google Calendar over with just a few clicks. So that was pretty painless. I’m sure there are other calendar services like that. YMMV.

Google maps is tough lol

[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Congratulations! That's awesome! I've been Google-free for 2-3 years, but I haven't been brave enough to finally delete Gmail. I keep worrying I might need the message history one day?

Regarding Maps: I use OrganicMaps as my main, & I reflex to Gmaps WV when something isn't in OrganicMaps. I feel this is a reasonable privacy-friendly compromise.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I’m not 100% but I am close. Off gdrive, off gcal, off chrome, almost entirely off gmail. I’ll check out the maps!