I degoogled back when they announced AMP email, and am in broad agreement with the author here. The only things I’ve found it hard to replace are YouTube, Arts & Culture, Google Books, and Books ngrams. Everything else has great alternatives to move to 100%, and Books is just a backup alongside archive.org and Hathi.
Even if you just stop using one piece of Google you’ll find yourself in a better place.
I produce book for Standard Ebooks, and they need cover art.[1] Arts & Culture is a good source, but I also use Wikimedia Commons and some museum sites directly.
Even if you just stop using one piece of Google you’ll find yourself in a better place.