I stopped using chrome 15 years ago and de-googled my life 5 years ago. The hardest thing to let go in fact was Gmaps (most alternatives, until recently, were not great) and I'm still captured by android, but rome was not built in a day.
Quitting chrome these days is the easiest thing to do. The writing is on the way. You don't control the browser on your network, google does. ANd for better or worse, google's priority is AI at this time.
Sysadmins should take notice.
If the network is ~65% chrome and thus deemed painful, take the gradual approach. Do not push chrome on new devices or users. Watch that problem slowly go away.
> most alternatives, until recently, were not great
Curious to know, what viable alternatives did you discover?
Gmaps WV while using VPN. Download from Fdroid.
Its miles ahead of something like Osmand , which i really, really, tried to like for a year, but its a UX disaster (i could never ever figure it out)
Is that a webview loading Gmaps? That's not what I expected to call "degoogling", haha.
The OSMand UX is clearly not made for casual use, but Comaps is basically the main user-friendly application. It is missing a couple of commonly-used features though, most notably traffic information, which of course Google bases on data collected from its users.
Kagi Maps isn't bad, it's slow but POIs are there with enough data.
Wait, Chrome has been around for 15 years? Damn I'm old.