degoogle

I’ve been using many apps and from few months, It’s seems I’m quite stable so I think it’s time to share a list of awesome Android Apps I’m using everyday as I’ve removed Google from my life!

I finally gave up on Nova Launcher after watching the various “calls home” its doing now after the acquisition by analytics company Branch. I held out for probably way too long considering the way things were inevitably going to go. I’ve tried Kvaesitso, KISS, and Neo Launcher so far. There are a couple of features I...

Just switched to a new phone carrier, and they had a promotion that included a free phone: the Google Pixel 8. I’m not a fan of Google, but I am a fan of free, so I took the bait....

I haven’t used it much if at all in the past year, but I finally took the last step and deleted it! Sorry if this is low effort I just don’t have anyone I know to share it with.

Awesome Android Apps...

I didnt need even more motivation to degoogle but got it anyway.

Where is the OSM mention?

… And damm it feels good! Before starting this step, I had to migrate to a better browser that respects privacy (Brave, because🖕Firefox, I mean Mozilla at this point doesn’t even want you to be safe on the web anymore!) And a better “Google-style” ecosystem (Proton is the best they have an email service, a calendar, a...

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I’ve seen that LTT made a video about degoogling our lives, that’s a great point that a big youtuber like him would make videos like this!

I’m not sure about my phone, maybe I’d like to keep Google Lens, but on a TV box it seems completely unnecessary. Its identifier com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox also sounds like it shouldn’t contain anything important for the working of a device, but who knows with Google. Is there anything unexpected that would...

Since some time I’ve searched photos related apps, to edit and take pictures but I’ve not found anything interesting in open source… Does someone has an explaination?

I'm looking for a Google Photos search replacement in local, preferable FOSS....

Google is one of the biggest obstacles to privacy. This article will explore how and why to de-Google yourself to reclaim and protect your digital privacy.

Like instead of google docs or google sheets use this?

/e/OS V2 is a de-Googled Android operating system with Android Auto support, UI enhancements, and privacy improvements....

I’ve found helpful guides for de-googling here, but I wasn’t able to find any for limiting the personal data that is shared with Google before making the switch to other services....

Hey there, I’m looking for an alternative to Google pay that’ll allow me to use NFC payments etc. Thoughts?...

It seems that the motherboard is dead, and that it’s a common issue with the 5a and I “should’ve known better,” despite it being impossible to find decent information on phones these days....

I am in need of a separate degoogled phone for some things that require high level of privacy (nothing illegal)....

I have 5 of the older generation google home speakers that i dont use because google assistant got dumber and dumber so that in the end it was just easier to get up and turn off the light instead of having google do it....