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Samsung → iPhone: Need Your De-Google Tips (sopuli.xyz)
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/31024070

Making the jump from Samsung to iPhone soon, mainly for privacy reasons. Want to cut Google out as much as possible while I'm at it.

What I'm planning so far:

  • Mailbox.org instead of Gmail
  • DuckDuckGo for search, would prefer something even better
  • Safari with all the privacy stuff turned on

Where I'm stuck:

  • What about YouTube? Just use the web version?

  • Google Drive alternatives that actually work well?

  • Best way to store photos that aren't big greedy corps?

Questions:

  • Any must-have privacy apps once I get the iPhone?

  • Settings I should change immediately out of the box?

  • Services I'm forgetting that are probably feeding Google my data?

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[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dont wanna mess with the security of my device, and in my experience, getting rid of Googles tracking entirely is kind of inconvenient,

in my country people can look you up and know where you live, but they most probably cant hack your gps and find you, maybe the government can but im not hiding from the government.

But the point of my post is looking for what options there are to limit the data im feeding to big corps like google, i cant degoogle completely unfortunately

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'm telling you that you can. You can even remove the play store from an android device and all Google Services and it will still function. Look at AOSP ROMs for your phone. But as you said, you have an iPhone now. Good luck.