I think a lot of these guides could use more in-depth companion guides to go along with it. Changing your email provider for one is not a simple thing and there are concerns like loss of functionality (Gmail is a good product run by a shit company) and also how to make the process less overwhelming. Some services will give you the option to migrate all your emails from Gmail but maybe you want to start fresh, etc. Then there's going to all of your providers and updating your contact email. Again, not as simple as signing up for another service.

In your guide, Proton's services have the EU flag, but the company is Swiss.

Where are the password managers? When changing your accounts to another email provider, this is a really good time to also make sure all the accounts have a strong, unique password or phrase.

This is me, but i did it in reverse. Once windows was behind me it kind of opened up the door to more change. Took me less than a year to arrive at not using my google account at all.

Great guide! Very useful for people discovering a world outside of the GAFAM’s.

I’ve done everything, but leaving Whatsapp is the most difficult one. I use Threema and Signal with my close friends, but I can’t get rid of Whatsapp because of many groups I have to follow but I’m not close enough to people to ask them to switch.

I’d love it if these two chat services proposed a separate app which would be interoperable with Whatsapp.

Yes Meta would still get some of my data, but less than if I had Whatsapp directly.

Also getting Whatsapp business and setting an automatic answer asking people to contact me through mail, sms or other chats is useful.

Leaving youtube is also difficult as Peertube is lacking non tech content like basketball..

I stopped looking at it after initial glance, seeing the top line, the browsers.

Vivaldi?

Really.

No.

What about https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ ?

Doesn't that already serve the same purpose? ... without also recommending to use a closed source browser as Vivaldi like you are doing instead?

leaving big tech

Firefox is big tech

What stumped me is that YouTube music and apple music are the starting point, and not Spotify.

Also isn't using your own Mailserver with your own domain on any webhoster plus Thunderbird a viable alternative? I've been doing this for like 20 years. That's the beauty of email imo

how do I take multiple emails and consolidate them into one ? thats the biggest thing preventing me from degoogling gmail

Correction: Ente is also self-hostable.

Why avoid Safari if it’s one of the browsers with best privacy rating?

i thought you had stopped recommending protonmail and spotify but i see now both are back (spotify not in this image, but (with caveats) on your website).

i see you've been making these images for many years and obviously put a lot of time in to it - i assume that like most other ethical consumerism campaigns you must have some funding for it? (from who?)

Thanks for putting this together. Stuff like this is good for making it more approachable. I definitely have relatives that would benefit from this.

One note though, it would be good if the key included all of the icons and not just the three causes.

As the other commented pointed out, it would also be good to differentiate decentralized services, for example in the category with Mastodon and Bluesky.