The TK-App (health insurance) got a problem with no Google Play Store..Is there someone with a solution?

Just use apple phones lmao

(Not saying you should, just that this will definitely degoogle you)

I've been a long time Firefox user but I cannot condone Mozillas recent actions. I am currently considering opera (yes I know it's chromium). Any other suggestions? My most important feature for me is adblockers

I am confident this is not the best subreddit for this, but maybe you guys would know where to ask?

I have avoided any google assistant stuff as long as possible, since, I would rather my data just be kept private, but recently, I tried to log into youtube on a TV, it mentioned accepting some new ToS regarding google assistant, but did not give me the ability to view the ToS change, but even after progressing it seems to have only allowed me to accept but still didn't log me into youtube, so it was all for not.

I can't seem to find any information online about the newer google assistant ToS, and I want to make sure that my data is not used for training LLMs or other AI tools. So I think I accepted something without knowing what I've accepted. Is there any way of seeing what ToS from google currently applies to me? Or possibly withdraw my acceptance of an agreement I couldn't read?

I presume like Tor but perhaps built off of something like Ladybird rather than Firefox, I wonder if any open source fanatics would be down to make this a reality

Till now, Lineage21 OS is well known; but after reading comments of some people about privacy it is being stated lineage to be worse than stock ROM in security. So till now, The full De-googled custom ROM is only LINEAGE21 OS? Nothing else yet? What all you use? Genuinely want to know, no jokes please.

AFAIK, I tried degoogling and almost succeed but one thing disturbed in Payments. Online payments. Banks app. These all need an google account. Now MicroG and Aurora Store, the payment can even be gone due to bugs as it is warned by microG itself. How do you all do payments? In my region, for all, Gpay QR Code. To check bank bal. An app and etc. How you all do it without Gapps nor Aurora Store.?

Hi. I am so much interested to install lineageos and microg together. What is the state of microg? Is it usable? Is there anything I should be aware of?

Hey,

I just installed graphene os on my new pixel (coming from samsung ultra 24), it looks pretty minimalistic honestly, but i understand that here the priorities are different.

Anyway , can you recommend me smth, for a new degoogle person ?) Maybe any tips and tricks / apps, anything.

I would be very grateful.

Ps. I also have a question about "network permission", should I turn it off when I dont use apps ? But than I won't be able to update the apps ?

Anyway thanks !!

I tried the mailbox.org service on a trial period, and honestly, it didn't quite win me over. I even reached out to support to get a sense of their attitude, but I wasn't impressed. Although I'm not a native speaker myself, their English was a bit lacking, and many of their answers seemed superficial, without much real help. The interface also has a lot of features that don't really benefit me.

I'm just looking for a simple provider that supports standard IMAP. I have my own domain. I've heard only good things about Posteo, and even though they don't allow you to use your own domain, I'm actually open to that. I recently decided that I don't necesarilly need the domain for email. I know it helps with migration, but since I use Linux, transferring emails is easy, just two commands: mbsync pull and mysync push. It's an utility that allows me transfer all my emails between providers as long as they support IMAP.

Proton and Tuta is not an option as they don't support IMAP. So, I'd be curious about what you think of Posteo and if it's better service than mailbox.

As part of #DeGoogling, below are services which I found hard to switch due to various reasons:

GMAIL - Proton, Tuta are good, but no easy way to switch mail service fully and quickly.

GOOGLE CALENDAR - Always best to use calendar with email service provider. Once I completely moved to Proton Mail, may start using Proton Calendar.

GOOGLE MAPS - Apple Maps not available in Android and Open Street Maps isn't as good as Google.

ANDROID - not an iOS fan and Graphene works only in Pixel devices.

GOOGLE SEARCH - Brave Search is somewhat good. Bing & others aren't as easy, quick and comprehensive as Google.

YOUTUBE - many front end options are available, but not one that can directly compete with YouTube as a complete alternative.

Over the course of time I've understood that to some extent, it's fine or no other way than to give away little extra data for convenience aspect, than fully forcing ourselves to #DeGoogle...

Hello! I would ask this to a sub related to quitting social media, but I think I need more tech-y input to understand why this is happening and how to stop it. Sorry in advance If I overexplain things that are obvious, I don’t know a lot about how these things work.

So I block a lot of social media websites on my IOS devices and Youtube is one (and the worst) of them. I use a random blocker app that blocks both the website and the apps since I don’t have the apps anyways. Because of college I need to use Gmail, Drive and such linked to my school email. My school uses Okta for the myID log in for everything—in other words when I’m logging into something or click a link to something that uses your Google account I get directed to the same log in window regardless of the service I want to access. If I’m logged out when I have youtube blocked, I can log into my Okta account, but can’t open any other Google account sites because the redirect URL has “youtube.com” in it!!! The redirect link starts with accounts(dot)youtube(dot)com/accounts/SetSID?ssdc=1&sidt= (I hope this is fine for Rule 5). So I have to turn off my blockers every time I have to log in again which is so annoying, AND makes my life a living hell because I have no self control and need those blockers to function.

BEGGING for any suggestions that you think might help. Unfortunately I don’t think I can stop using my Gmail, Drive etc. and can’t go buy a new phone/tablet because I’m broke. Am I doomed to not be able to block Youtube forever with my current digital environment?

How do I stop this stupid phone from listening to me and my conversations? Today my teacher was saying some stuff and I got ads for that stuff she said. My phone is completely degoogled and it's still does this.

As title states.

I got tons of photos and videos that now made my free Google account full. I deleted many things but it gets full again in a day.

Now they are threatening to stop my Gmail from functioning by the end of the month.

I'm just tired of deleting things and choosing which video of my kids is less important. It's all backed up on my computer but I still like the fast access on my phone.

So can they actually stop my Gmail from functioning?? Is there anything I can do?

Can I create an email elsewhere and somehow forward all my Gmail emails to it?

I know it's probably a stupid question but I'm not that knowledgeable in this stuff and I'm getting super annoyed at the your account is full emails and messages. It's making me resent Google.

Thanks in advance for suggestions and please be kind.

I've had my Pixel 3 for many years and it's worked great. I bought it from the Brax store, and will probably buy another from him. Current Pixel needs an app to wake the screen up. One of the sensors is wonky. Battery doesn't last very long.

What phone is recommended? I'm not going back from a degoogled phone for sure.

I tried the Pinephone, but it's not my thing.

Does google actually use the private information in my docs and sheets for advertising? That seems like it would not be focused enough to use for ads.

Hi, I'm going mostlikely buy pixel phone for graphene OS, hovewer I've got samsung tab8 and macbook , which i don't have plans to change. I'm logged out from apple ID on mac and I don't use Google at all (switched off) on my samsung tab. I also use Brave and Safari browsers and duckduckgo searching engine. Question, does it makes sense to sell my samsung s24 ultra for pixel now when I still have tablet and mac which won't have graphene os ? I mean all devices use same wi fi, so maybe there is no sense? Thanks , I've just started my journey so the question might be a bit naive.

Are fossify services really good alternatives for privacy?

I am trying to switch from google entirely but I understand bing is blocked from crawling Reddit to index recent topics posted on the site. (It'll show you old posts but not new posts from Reddit).

Usually when I want to look something up, I will type in "iOS 18 issues Reddit" in google to find specific answers from Reddit. If you filter it for results from the last week it will not show any.

Is google the only search engine I can use to still search that way due to the google/Reddit deal?

Or is there another work around.

I recently switched from Chrome to FireFox/DuckDuckGo and was wondering what else I could/should do like move email, accounts, etc. I am young, unable to get a job (will soon) so I'd appreciate free suggestions. I also have a Windows PC and an iPhone (I know not ideal sorry). Thank you in advance.

So, I have gotten used to the task manager and back buttons being reversed. I couldn't find the setting to change that for my Pixel 6a on GrapheneOS.

Do you folks have good replacement suggestions to the default launcher for GOS?

• Something that let's me use button navigation for back, home, and taskmanager.
• Something I could switch the layout of the back button to be on the right side.
• Not looking to simplify my home screen. (I know them from dumbphones, so I don't need that)

I've been self-hosting email on my own domain since 1993. It's been ok till now, but recently I've had some problems.

I kinda have to use linkedin, but it's asking me to verify my account via email and I never receive the email. It's not going to spam, it's just never being received. I wrote to their support, but that's like talking to a cloud; no response.

Also, an LG account says my email address is not in my home country. Which is sort of true, it's .org not .ca, but that hasn't been a thing for decades.

Anyone have any ideas what's going on and what I can do? Is there a better place I can post this issue?

I honestly worry it's part of a power play to consolidate to large providers, they can bring these things under the guise of security.

Hi, I'm thinking to switch from Samsung to pixel grapheneOS, but I live customization. Like wallpapers and stuff. How things are on graphene os ?

Hi all, I am in the process of moving many files from Google Drive to a Synology NAS. I have some business related files that be available on the Synology, however while I am still in the setup phase, I'm not sure if want to use the NAS as the primary file storage.

What I am looking for is:

• A cloud storage (about 1tb per user but no overly concerned)
• Would like to have an inbuilt Google Docs replacement
• Team admin settings(users, groups, etc).
• Not required but, something that supports a Synology 2 way sync / backup would also be great.

Infomaniak is one option I have heard ok, I just wanted to see if there were any other good options.

Thanks.

As the title says

Hello, today I reinstalled lineage os 21 with my friend and rooted it, using FakeGapps we enabled spoofing and got MicroG services to work perfectly, but I have been struggling with setting up GPS for several hours and got nowhere. I tried using Magic Earth to set everything up but no luck, I just don't get located. I tried everything from unifiedNLP and changing multiple backends and nothing works (of course allowing all permissions). I also tried running those two command lines that fixed my problems last time when I was installing lineage without MicroG but they don't work now. Please if anyone had the same problem, give me you solution I would really appreciate it, because I really want to try and main this degoogled phone.

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I have a work phone and a personal phone. My work phone just updated Android's OS. I didn't think anything of it until I checked my mail and the display at the bottom of my screen said 11 of 15 GB used. Turns out that the update turned on backup and all my work stuff got backed up. Is this normal?