r/degoogle

3 days ago I received email from Google that they terminated my YouTube account. I’m not going to discuss it here but the surprise is when it came the date of renewal of YouTube Premium (yesterday) they tried to charge my credit card. FOR SUBSCRIPTION ON DISABLED ACCOUNT

And apparently i dont have an option to cancel it 😂

Fortunately i closed my card earlier. But dude how you still charging people for disabled accounts?

Ps: i sent to them on X and they just ghosted me.

Motivational speech here.

Honestly the ball is really in our court.

Us as in consumers of technology.

If we decide——-

The next phone won’t be an iPhone

It won’t be a Google phone

It won’t be any company that shows obviously disregard for privacy and ethics

We move to phones like mc03 fairphone JOLLA! Etc

We change the market

No more MacBooks

No more sell

No more Microsoft

Yes at first there might be some downgrades

But if we just flat out refuse

More and more

And more

As individuals

As people with power within businesses for those decisions

As business owners

As manufacturers

We

Have

Got

This

In

The

Bag

Come on now

hi, i want to use a really private search engine without controversies but all the most famous ones had at least something or have real bad privacy policy:
Duckduckgo enable trackers for microsoft
Brave search is made by Brave who had founding by Brendan Eich and i despise him as human being
startpage is owned by a ad company and dont know if i should trust em even if the privacy policy is good
i want to love ecosia and qwant for the new staan european index but their privacy policy kinda suck, keeping ip addresses and sharing to google
mojeek has a very little search index
i tried kagi but had mixed results for italian language
what should i use? thanks in advancee

Digital privacy is almost non-existent especially the current and past year. Seeing Austin Evan's video about "Why do we trust google" video was so alarming on how much info they have om him and the rest of the world. I recently picked up myself from my huge slump and done lot better for myself. Although my mind currently is bringing back dark thoughts against myself because of the government and corpo suits invasiness. Sorry if I'm coming off as venting. Does anyone else feels like this?

I'm currently using Zorin OS Linux and been degoogling and in the process of finding myself a used Pixel phone to run GrapheneOS. Using Proton programs like their VPN and Email, Tuta, Ente photos, the Fossify suite and several other open source apps etc. The only major thing on my current phone gmail and playstore. I know there's the saying that Privacy is a mindset not a product. I can't shake the overwhelming power them suits have. Like how much privacy is too much? Would that means being off the grid in the woods?

I’m very new on this journey and I legit have no idea what to do or where to start. I got the apps but I don’t know how to delete the Google apps.

However I want to cut this from the source. I don’t want android anymore.

Are there any options???

I have a CMF by Nothing phone 1

Do you think paying for “privacy-friendly” apps (like Proton) is a real long-term solution, or just a better short-term fix?

I mean: even if we pay, we are still trusting a company with our data.

So I’m wondering:

Do you personally prefer trusting a company to do the right thing,
or having full control yourself (for example with self-hosting)?

I’d love to hear from both sides:
people who rely on "privacy-friendy" services, and people who chose to manage everything themselves.

Can we safely assume Android 12 or 13 had the most models for degoogling, ie.with most options of unlocking and alternate OS, including Lineage and Graphene, which are now still seemingly the biggest communities? If you had the chance to buy/gift/present a phone (even 2nd hand) for friends to ungoogle, which model would you either buy or recommend? Which models have had the best and easiest initial setup? (Let's promote other phones than Pixels here, pls, thanks!)

Our extended family would like to join our degoogle projects, as we show that even N26 and Revolut work on LineageOS, etc. (This is for eu-predominantly, much appreciated)

Thoughts, comments, opinions?

I switched from Samsung to a Nothing phone and was really sad when I saw a lot of app were differents between Samsung and Nothing. Like the clock, gallery, or even phone. On Samsung you have your "galaxy" alternatives, but on Nothing you only have Google... Google clock, Google phone.

I use Fossify then, but it's such a big down to me :/

Here is what I've done so far, any thoughts?

email - tuta

calendar - tuta

cloud storage - filen

browser (PC) Floorp and mull (android)

search engine - Mojeek

docs, spreadsheet,etc - collabora

messaging / video - molly and simplex

password manager / 2fa - KeePassXC (PC) and KeePassDX (android), Aegis (2fa)

translator - libretranslate

google keep - Joplin

google photos - Ente

google wallet - curve

google maps - organic maps

google street view - mapillary

youtube music - auxio (android) and lollypop (pc)

youtube - new pipe

google play store - fdroid and aurora

gboard - futo

VPN - Mullvad

Hi guys,

I have been seeing all the issues with Google and I am seriously considering degoogling but I don't know how to go about it. Can anyone help me with tips or a step by step process on how to degoogle?

I have tried both Proton and Tuta calendars, but none of them convince me. Tuta has the main functionality I need, adding calendars through ics link, but the widget is buggy and does not work properly for me. Proton does not have the ics functionality and that is a no for me. What other alternatives can I try?