141
How Google Tracks Everything You Do and How to Stop It
(www.youtube.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
141 points (93.3% liked)
Privacy
48788 readers
449 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
Step 1) Don't use YouTube('s own client)
I mean, this video is targeting people who are still entangled with Google. If you aren't, there isn't much point in watching it, right?
If all the good content is still there, people will stay there. Open and ethical platforms need to have content to become an alternative. I hope this content is hosted on PeerTube and other platforms as well.
They need to solve paying creators and also what happens when if they get big. How do they scale. Hate YouTube all you want it costs a lot of money to run it and I don't see federated service replacing it. Also the fact everything us still up there I see that being hard in federation.
I don't think it needs to be solved, they motivate people to support through other means and have a dedicated support button. Sponsorships are also a thing.
Regarding scaling, as the name implies, PeerTube makes use of Peer-to-Peer technology to reduce the load of platforms and it's federated without an "official" instance, which allows content creators to spread across different instances, spreading the load it comes with.
Oh for sure. I hope he and others double post to better platforms so they can catch up as well.
Step 2) Get a proper email where you aren’t the product.
Step 3: Stop using android unless it's Graphene or something like it that's de-googled. Because a lot of Google's tracking is done through the play store.
I know this question pops up a thousand times but what email do you suggest? I'm trying proton right now.
Stick to Proton if you like it.
posteo.de
german e-mail provider . 1€/month. Enviroment in mind. simple.
Clients i use for smartphone is FairMail and on pc Thunderbird.
Tuta.con
If you like, get your very own domain as well, and make infinite aliases.
You still can't have an alias go to multiple mailboxes, though, right? Or even forward out of tuta?
The terminology is a bit confusing, so let’s clarify. What you really have is just one mailbox, not many. It acts as a catch-all mailbox for all mail sent to any addresses under your domain. You just need to set up folders and sorting rules to keep things tidy.
So let’s say you bought cool.tech and you made a single mailbox like inbox@cool.tech. Nobody sends mail there specifically, but that’s where it all goes because it’s a catch-all address. All the other addresses mail is sent to were never explicitly created, but they can receive anyway.
Instead, you get mail to addresses like ScammyAppName@cool.tech and iJustWantedToDownloadThisOneFile@cool.tech, etc. Anything sent to those addresses gets sorted into two separate folders within the only mailbox you’ll ever need. If you want the same email appear in two folders, you would need to make a copy of it.
I'll give it a go.
Do you have any suggestions on a maps app that is compatible with android auto or is android auto another can of worms?
Never needed to mess around with that, so I don’t have any advice.
As far as maps in general are concerned, I’m currently experimenting with OSM based maps. If you’re on iOS, you can easily get away from google by using apple maps. Not gonna get away from big tech that way, but still…
Fair point.
Although it does have the biggest exposure to Google addicts.
Any alternative client recommandations?
My personal recommendation that has been working for me (although there are other options that for some people might be better)
NewPipe for videos
Metrolist for music and podcasts
Thanks, will give them a try!
I am so happy for you finding newpipe now! Awesome client.
Grayjay