I quite like the privacy pack site and it’s posted a lot here without much else. I’ve been degoogling/debigteching for about 2 years really slowly at this point and i’m finally basically there.
I didn’t want to just bang my photo in and run so here’s some words for every section:

tl;dr niice - Long post, skip to the section you’re interested in…

Outlook -> Proton Mail

Been on Proton Unlimted for just over 2 years now, it was one of the first things I moved. Initially found it scary - i’ve been on outlook for 20+ years. I setup an outlook rule to forward to a proton alias. Then everytime I got an email I changed my email to a simplelogin alias or ignored it if it was an old account I don’t want anything to do with.
I am now 100% out of outlook, I still have it linked but I very rarely get a forward.

Google Photos -> Ente Photos

I run a homeserver so I initially tried immich, but there was 3 reasons I ended up on ente vs selfhosting. Ente has been great and worth it if you can get family on your account, takes the sting out for the £10 a month. The reasons I chose paid ente over immich:

1. Ente gives 3xS3 storage backups with compliance lock. I was a bit nervous being in charge of uptime/backups of my families photos, this offloaded it to Ente. Once you add in the same replication the self hosted cost increases a bit.

2. Following on from point 1. Immich doesn’t easily allow you to encrypt the photos at rest across users, or at least not at default. I didn’t want access to my dads photos.

3. One of my favourite use cases of google photos that ente has (and immich doesn’t without scripts) was automatically recognising a face of my daughter on all our families gallerys and moving them to a shared album.

I could get past point 1,2 but adding in 3, it made me just want to offload the hastle.

Google Search -> Kagi

I was on DDG for quite a long time and it was mostly fine but I got sucked into the Kagi hype and initially it seemed wild to pay for search even if it is better (and it is). Adding in the AI tokens, translate and maps i’m happy to keep paying.
I did cancel for a month recently when the translate fiasco happened. But I quickly came crawling back, I benchmarked brave, ddg, SP and kagi. Kagi was consistently top and when it wasn’t it was close. Brave was either incredible or awful.

Chrome -> Brave Origin / LibreWolf

Brave Origin for mobile: I know, chromium bad. The fact is Chromium is more secure on android and integrates better with better battery life and performance. I don’t do loads of browsing here.
Librewolf on desktop: Just been a great firefox fork for me with Ublock. I have a pushover javascript setup so I can still quickly push links between my phone and browser.

WhatsApp -> Signal

Im still 99% whatsapp, but I have 2 contacts on signal, no dice getting them all to switch but i’m trying…
It’s weird because privacy aside, signal is a better messaging app, quicker, better designed and has all the features.

Google Keep -> FUTO Notes

I have been on obsidian, standard notes and now a self hosted FUTO Notes.
I’m not a big note taker, I was originally banging out random quick notes in keep, then spent days perfecting an obsidian setup but getting annoyed with sync and the complexity.
I moved to standard notes on a paid plan, but it’s buggy.
Finally back on FUTO notes, it’s super simple, free and self hosted - Loving it.

Google Drive -> Ente Locker / Proton Drive

Ente locker for my documents. Proton drive for my personal files backup. It works.

Google Passwords -> Bitwarden

Don’t need to discuss this much. I just started using bitwarden years ago when I got serioos about this stuff. My passwords in google were probably password1…
I just moved every site over to bitwarden over time.

Google Auth -> Ente Auth

Great app, good design. I was using authy, then Aegis but I needed something with cloud sync.
My ethos is to split where I can. Emails on proton, passwords on Bitwarden, auth on ente/yubikey. Reduces single point failures.

Outlook Calendar -> Proton Calendar

Proton calendar is a bit shit, but for me just sharing really simple events about my kids to the mrs this works fine. It’s included and private so i’m happy.

Google Contacts -> Fossify Contacts

This one seemed tough and only recently carried it out.
I just did it… No biggie… I do a monthly backup of all my phone apps to my server and I just included contacts in that, works great!

Play Store -> F-Droid / Obtanium

I’m still probably 50% play store just because I can. I try get them from fdroid or obtainoum when I can.

NordVPN -> Proton VPN

I’m mostly wireguarding into my own server, but my arrrrrr dockers route through a netherland VPN.
I do use Proton Stealth at work, as the work network bans VPNs and it gets round it really well!

Google Gemini -> Lumo / Kagi Assistant

I use AI sparingly to just rename things, reorganise things. I don’t really use them as a chat bot. Even though Kagi and Lumo are more private i’m still extremely carefull what data I put in.

Google Home -> Home Assistant

This has been a really long transition too. I manage it recently by finally getting rid of my google doorbell for a Reolink. I love HA. It’s WAYYY better being local only, and I VPN in if needed. I have thermostats, plugs, lights, PS5, automations, meshcore, my server.
It’s one that seems annoying to do, but just get stuck in…

Google Maps -> CoMaps / Kagi Maps

This has been the hardest and I do still check Waze in a seperate phone profile to check traffic for a long trip. Comaps is my phone and kagi is AMAZING on desktop, does routing and OSM data.

Google Translate -> Kagi Translate

I very rarely translate but kagi is akin to google translate but using an AI model. I think the interface is really slick and it does a great job. I keep it around. I was not happy when it was meant to go paid, I barely use it so was going to lose the very small access I did use it even though I was a paid Kagi Member, but they walked it back.

Google Pay -> Cash

Thought this would be tough, but it’s just easy to use your cards and cash. I do have a handful of loyalty cards stored in the Catima app when needed.
I also have 1 card on my garmin watch for emergencies. It’s quite refreshing to just swipe the card.

Cloudflare DNS -> ControlD DNS

I originally had a pihole setup and it was amazing, however I missed having the same block lists wherever I went with my phone so I moved to NextDNS. It worked amazing.
Then the UK age gated loads of sites (porn, reddit, imgur). So I found ControlD. This allows certain domains to automatically route to another country without a VPN. It works flawlessly routing things allover with complex rules.

Windows -> Linux Mint

Worried about this one and dual booted for ages, but then just got rid. I’ve loved having mint, updates to all apps happen easily, it’s bloat free and just works on my Framework 13.
I have gotten to grips with basic linux no problems.

Android -> GrapheneOS

Best move I ever did, just having control of my pixel phone was a game changer. No more random changes to the OS by adding in a gemini pop up. Can’t remove search bar etc.
Permissions i’m in control. I do still use sandboxed google play for notifications though… GrapheneOS fix things so quickly too!

YouTube -> NewPipe

Easy swap, exported subs and banged them in! One big thing for me is getting rid of “the algorithm”. So getting no recommendations is amazing. (same reason I love RSS). I curate my own feed!

Microsoft 365 -> Proton Docs

Proton docs is fiiiiine… Im a very light user, small spreadsheets, odd letter and it works fine for that so i’m okay to recommend.
I use office at work with macros and more indepth presentations/spreadsheets it would never manage that…

Gboard -> FUTO Keyboard

Tried heliboard and the autocorrect never worked well for me, FUTO though since 2 updates ago as been incredible, the swipe typing is lovely.
It’s the first keyboard since GBoard that just feels as accurate as gboard for Typing, voice and swiping. Other his 1 or 2 of these but never 3.