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While this list was designed to help people wanting to move off US-based services, it's also helpful for those of us just trying to get off Google. One of the very few Google services I still used was Google translate, and now I have an alternative.
(I thought DeepL looked good, but there are four other choices and I'm open to other suggestions.)
I'm not doing any heavy translation work; I just sometimes want to translate something I see online, purely for my own curiosity.
@jeridansky For a decent subset of languages you can also use the on-device translation models that Apple provides; they are quite good, and improving, and nothing ever leaves your device for the translation operation?
@sindarina Thank you — I totally forgot that Apple does this!
These instructions for my Mac (where I normally want to do translations) work fine as long as I remember it's control-click to get to the translate function:
https://support.apple.com/en-lamr/guide/mac-help/mchldd8b3c15/mac