startpage.com as search engine

yalp as android play store

remove all google related apps and sub apps, with yalp you can update your 'normal apps'

ignore app that whine about google-play-services, they still work fine.

Your own mail adres/domain/site is about 5-6 euro's a month (that's with site hosting, without it's about 3-5 euro (only mail)) + yearly domain expenses. So for one pack of smokes a month you can avoid twice the cancer: 1 less pack of smokes and 1 domain + about 5 mail adresses and a site.

hooktube instead of youtube. youtube-dl (python package) to directly download/stream youtube vid into your own media player. (also works for other video sites, has a BIG api on what to do with playlists etc.)

Oh and don't use chrome/chromium, firefox and palemoon are nice too.

Newb friendly linux-distros:

• Manjaro (arch for newbs)

• Ubuntu [xubuntu/lubuntu for low specs desktops/laptops] (the original newb distro)