I'm currently trying to cut Google, Facebook and the other gargantuan major players out of my online life, and move to smaller, more specialized providers. If n

I'm currently trying to cut Google, Facebook and the other gargantuan major players out of my online life, and move to smaller, more specialized providers. If nothing else, it gives me a bit of peace of mind that my online assets are not all in one basket. If you're 100% Google, what are you going to do if the big G decides to suspend your account? If all your social life is though FB (or other big social network), what happens if they suspend your account? My FB usage is now scaled down to basically just an event RSVP service with a few token page subscriptions for bands and venues. I've removed all photos and videos, cleared out all profile information, set visibility on everything to "just me" or "friends only", and I've untagged myself from everything I was ever tagged in. Yes, I know FB is probably keeping a lot (all?) of that in their archives for an indeterminate period of time, maybe the EU "right to be forgotten" can help with that. I've replaced Google search with Startpage and I've migrated my email, calendar and contacts from GMail/GCalendar to a paid hosting/email provider, with my own personal domain name. My phone is still running stock Android 7, but I've significantly cut down the amounts of apps installed, I much prefer to use web versions in Firefox with a decent lineup of privacy-protecting and tracking-inhibiting extensions. Some mobile web sites are really shitty about forcing their apps on you, but I'd rather just do without them. Obviously on the desktop, Firefox with the appropriate extensions is the browser of choice. I refuse to get any "smart" devices, they're not welcome in my home. I'm working on replacing my Chromecasts, if nothing else I'll just use my laptop and an HDMI cable. For music in my kitchen/bathroom/basement, I've got a decent BT speaker instead. Kicking the Google/FB/whatever dependency is hard.