I haven’t used it much if at all in the past year, but I finally took the last step and deleted it! Sorry if this is low effort I just don’t have anyone I know to share it with.

  • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    6 months ago

    Congrats dude! 😄 👍 I’m replacing all their service a bit at the time, is nice to see people able to completely switch off.

    • BlisterexeOP
      162·
      6 months ago

      if you switch to protonmail itll foward emails from your gmail to proton, then you can slowly move stuff over

      • bob_lemon@feddit.de
        1·
        6 months ago

        You can probably (never used proton) set up a filter on the new address to mark or move stuff that was originally sent to gmail, too. Helps visualize the accounts you need to migrate/update.

        • muhyb@programming.dev
          6·
          6 months ago

          I’m a simple man. Just knowing some entity is not munching my mail data is an enough reason for me.

          • joenforcer@midwest.social
            1·
            6 months ago

            That is quite simple. You’re the only one to provide a coherent answer so far so thanks for that.

            I’m looking for a bit more info though. Did you get any other benefits besides the equivalent of warm fuzzies? Sounds like an extremely outsized cost/benefit assessment you had to confirm.

            • muhyb@programming.dev
              3·
              6 months ago

              Well, while that’s the main reason, there are indeed some side benefits as well. I guess the first one that came to my mind is, I got rid of a lot of spams. Mostly because my Gmail address was in lots of breached websites. I also deleted any unnecessary accounts at variety of websites, because of these I haven’t been in a breach scandal since 2019 (That’s the year I finalized my transition to Tutanota). I use it on my government accounts, banking accounts and any other formal accounts, or the ones I trust. For the rest, I use email alias services and if I get a spam or even an annoying mail through that, I can just stop it there and I forget about them.

              Also it’s not just warm fuzzies. Privacy is a basic human right and it should stay that way on the internet as well. So it’s nice to know to be freed of personalized ads hell, at least from the voluntarily part. Can’t really do anything for the involuntarily part besides GDPR. Big corporations getting our personal data is not different from someone watching my house with a binoculars, same level of creepiness. I don’t think any sane mind would be comfortable knowing this.

        • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
          21·
          6 months ago

          Since I’ve stop using gmail et reduce the need for a gmail account, Google don’t force connexion btw my account and the ones of people I share a computer with. I’m done seeing someone else youtube history bc someone forget to log out of its drive account. By gone the times where my contacts would become mixed up with my friend’s who checked its emails on my phone. My children profil are not considered my secondary accounts. I am not receiving notification of one Google product telling my I haven’t give full permission to another Google profil anymore. I don’t feel like I’ve take time to configurate my account but thé software disant change its behavior.

          I’m no longer forced to use a software or a option I don’t want because this other software anable it automatically and that it is almost impossible to turn it off once you’ve start to use it.

      • bob_lemon@feddit.de
        1·
        6 months ago

        I went through my stored logins to migrate the vast majority of my accounts one by one (and deleted quite a few old and forgotten ones in the process). Took a couple of hours, but went mostly well.

        For everything that I might have missed, I have gmail set up to forward everything to my new address. The new address (I went with posteo myself) has a filter that automatically moves stuff addressed to gmail to a separate folder. Whenever something ends up in there, I go and migrate or delete the account.

  • mjq07@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 months ago

    Is there a viable Photos alternative? I was thinking of setting up a NAS on my RPi but it would need to be for other family members too.

    • AnActOfCreation@programming.dev
      8·
      6 months ago

      Ente it you’re looking for a paid service. (For me, photos are too important to self-host.) They’re end-to-end encrypted and both server and clients are open source.

      • Huschke@programming.dev
        7·
        6 months ago

        too important to self-host

        For me it’s the other way round. My photos are too important to trust any corporation - no matter how trustworthy they say they are.

          • Huschke@programming.dev
            5·
            6 months ago

            No I follow the 3-2-1 rule which states that you should have 3 copies in 2 locations where 1 of them is remote.

            In my case, the remote part is two external SSDs where I leave one with my parents and the other one plugged into my NAS which does automatic daily backups. When my parents come I swap them around.

      • Detective'@slrpnk.net
        3·
        6 months ago

        I second Ente, absolutely awesome products and great Devs always listening to feedback from community. Unlike other services and products, absolutely everything is open source to 🙌

    • BlisterexeOP
      8·
      6 months ago

      I use immich personally, super easy to use and very fast, even on the shitty old laptop I use.

      Edit: the shitty old laptop is hosting the server

    • Everett@reddthat.comEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      The Proton Drive app can automatically sync pictures from your phone. The Proton ecosystem as a whole is a good alternative to Google’s.

      • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.de
        2·
        6 months ago

        On that note tho, I kinda hate how this is only offered for photos. Why can’t I sync any folder I want?

    • Xer0@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I am still uploading to Google Photos currently, but have setup a backup of my photos once a week using SMBSync2 on Android, to my Raspberry Pi NAS. I have two external hard drives connected to my pc, so when I login to my pc there are two automated backups that happen to copy anything newly added to the nas to the two hard drives.

  • wagoner@infosec.pub
    4·
    6 months ago

    Has anyone figured out how to transfer a Gmail account’s Android app purchases to a new Google account that uses a non Gmail email address? This is the only reason I still keep my Gmail, having moved to proton 4 years ago.

    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
      5·
      6 months ago

      I use my self-hosted Nextcloud instance for this. Then sync to mobile using DAVx5. Calendar and contacts.

        • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
          3·
          6 months ago

          It is all free to use, but you will likely have some expenses with the self-hosting. If you do it yourself at home, you require hardware and power to run it on, and you would be well off having some additional backup solution off-site as well that would add to the cost. If you host on a VPS (like I do), you have the running costs of renting that server space.

    • Facebones@reddthat.com
      4·
      6 months ago

      I self host with Baikal. On android, you need Davx5 (on fdroid) to tie it into the OS but on your desktop (windows and Linux at least) calDAV will just be an option. Baikal supports CardDAV for contacts as well if you’re into that.

    • BlisterexeOP
      3·
      6 months ago

      Idk I don’t have a calendar, but I hear nextcloud is great for that

    • BlisterexeOP
      4·
      6 months ago

      I now use Firefox, brave search, protonmail and immich

      • Fizz@lemmy.nz
        1·
        6 months ago

        Nice I’m like 75% migrated away from gmail I still use Google maps. I don’t use Google photos. For search I use ddg. I’m trying to move away from play store using Droid instead but that’s a tough one.

        • BlisterexeOP
          2·
          6 months ago

          you should try aurora store for google play and osmand for google maps

  • scratchandgame@lemmy.mlTiếng Việt
    216·
    6 months ago

    It’s a normal thing and there’s no need for you to brag. You are expected to delete every account you do not use.