I mostly de-Googled after the Snowden leaks. I'm lucky enough that my surname was available as a domain name, so I bought it and let the domain host also host my email (for a small monthly fee). Set it up on my phone and in Thunderbird on my computers, and it works great for my use. The two Google products I've yet to break with are Google Translate and YouTube. If you know any good non-US-based translation services, please let me know. For YouTube I blame the content creators. I realise the necessity of uploading to YouTube (since that's where 99% of the audience is), but would it be that much of a hassle to also upload the videos to a few alternative video sites as well?I wish there was a good gmail replacement. I might just have to finally spin up my own server.
You can follow YouTube channels via RSS using your own feed reader, and watch the videos via a 3rd party app. That cuts down on essentially all of the YouTube junk, like comments and recommended videos, and significantly limits their tracking.