[duiker101]

GMail -> Fastmail

Google Maps -> Here Maps or OSM

Youtube -> Depends on your needs. There aren't really that many alternatives to watching videos on youtube but you don't need an account for that. If you need to host videos you can use Vimeo or checkout something like verond.com but this kind of services tend to come and go a bit too fast.

Play Store -> F-Droid or amazon store.

If you want to change your browser too, I strongly suggest Vivaldi.

Extra:

Photos -> Canon Irista

Drive -> Mega.nz

Analytics -> self hosted Matomo (shockingly easy!)

[Artemix]

GMail -> FastMail -> With the latest shitty AU laws, I'd advise against this provider (speaking as an old customer who really liked the service). https://privacytools.io/ provides a decent e-mail service list

Browser -> Firefox? So you completely drop the Chromium rendering engine (plus, firefox is awesome)

Photos -> what is your need, exactly?

[stephenr]

The laws are shitty but have zero effect on FastMail - they don’t provide an E2E solution so they already have your email unencrypted, no backdoors required.

[duiker101]

FastMail, I don't think those laws affect FM and anyhow I do no need the extreme privacy, just not selling my data. And since I do actually pay for it, I am less worried about that.

Firefox is... ok. I tried using it a few times but I find it a bit clunky for some reason and I do love Vivaldi absolute flexibility.

Photos, what I need is not being Google. Really. And it's so damn hard to find a decent service that is not Google. I am not in the Apple ecosystem so that's out, and all the other services have a bit crappy apps. I tried owncloud but the Android app is really not good enough.

The problem I have with Google is that I occasionally make Android Apps and I already had a strike on my account for an old app, if I were to have more strikes I would risk losing EVERYTHING, photos, emails etc... and that's not something that I am down for.

[BjoernKW]

You can pay for Gmail, too, with G Suite, that is. In fact, G Suite is fully GDPR-compliant. With the paid version they don't sell or mine your data.

[jaden]

Here's FastMail's official statement regarding the Australian laws: https://fastmail.blog/2018/09/10/access-and-assistance-bill/

tl;dr They're fighting it, but they don't see this bill having any additional consequences for our customers.

[rochak]

+1 for Vivaldi