This is a list containing mostly open source and free software, that should reduce the footprint you give to everything that tracks you online. A lot of these are replacements for Google products. And most of these have other alternatives, the ones listed here are just my favorites.
This is the easiest thing to do, and it gets you quite far.
Privacy respecting search engine. You should definitely replace your current one with something that doesn't track you.
An alternative to Chrome from a trusted privacy oriented company. You can never be fully sure that Google is not adding something suspicious to their browser. If you do trust chromium though, or something based on it, then you should totally check out the alternatives.
This is the grand father of good adblock. Sure, it's interface might not be that pretty, but it sure does it's job really well. You might wanna checkout Nano Adblocker though if you want something a bit more fresh.
Limits all kinds of trackers and ads. Might be a bit too much for most users. But it's one of the best ways to limit the attack surface for tracking you.
I think that it is essential to secure the way you communicate with others.
Matrix is a federated communications system, which provides excellent security and privacy. But currently it still feels a bit unfinished, so make sure that you can bare a few rough edges if you're going to start using it.
Secure email that works. There are other privacy focused email providers too, check out the alternatives if Protonmail isn't the one that you'd t rust.
If you want at least something that claims to not to track you and doesn't have the worst reputation, and you want your messenger to be usable, you might wanna check out Telegram. Though again, it's privacy is debatable.
These are replacements for some Google products.
Replaces google's password manager. There's also Android apps that can use the KeePass database file. Something that keeps your database file always offline guarantees that nobody else can access your passwords.
Integrates KeePass into Firefox for autofill. This is more of an "ease to use" thing, it's security might be a bit questionable though, so only use this on very trusted devices.
Better than your cloud provider spying on you. You could use this to sync your KeePass database file.
There is no good way to escape the hold that Google has on online video. Here's some suggestions though.
If you don't use YouTube for anything, and only need a place to upload videos, Vimeo will be fine for you.
If you like RSS feeds and already have lots, you can combine invidious with this, or just accept some YouTube trackers and use YouTube trough embeds. I use an userscript ( https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1760-youtube-rss-feed ) to get the channel RSS feed urls.
These are in my opinion over the top ways to make your life way harder to track. But even I do not do most of these, and I do not think that anyone should need to do these to achieve privacy.
This is quite easy to setup on a raspberrypi. It's dns level ad blocking, but it doesn't catch everything. But more layers of security usually is better than less layers.
Why not setup your own VPN too, so that you can use it as a proxy to your real vpn maybe? Buy a cheap vServ, setup OpenVPN to listen on port 443, and you've basically made yourself a really good firewall bypasser.
You're being tacked even now. Alternativeto.net has Google's tag manager at the very least, and who knows what else. You can never fully escape tracking, but these pieces of software should make your life a tiny bit more private.
