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De-googling so far. (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by imjustmsk@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

keepandroidopen.org

I LOVE F-droid.

suggest me any more cool apps I can get.

UPDATE: Got rid of Brave ๐Ÿ™ƒ, I wasnt using it anyway but here you go the updated list.

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[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 89 points 5 days ago

Brave is a less than ideal choice...

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

Cromite is a much more secure Chromium browser. IronFox is a much more secure Gecko browser.

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[-] zewm@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago

Yikes. De googles but leaves the brave crypto scam browser installed.

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[-] skyline2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 5 days ago

An actual answer for the browser instead of just shitting on Brave would be IronFox (hardened Firefox), and the best place to get it would be the Accrescent app store.

But for real don't use Brave...

[-] Eldritch@piefed.world 14 points 5 days ago

De "futo"ing would be a good idea as well. Them being associated with Curtis Yarvin (literally their peer tube) who is a piece of shit close enough to elon musk and thiel.

Lou's Rossman's right to repair work is great. His ability to recognize and not associate with some of the shittiest people and groups has become legend. (Kiwi farms anyone?)

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 5 points 5 days ago

Good to know. I just decided to try a gboard replacement and heliboard does pretty well.

[-] Eldritch@piefed.world 4 points 4 days ago

Yep, heli is what I'm using ATM. They are generally pretty solid and I haven't heard anything to recommend against the project. In fact they're completely voluntary and opt-in data collection to build their own swipe typing Library sounds like an awesome initiative and I hope they succeed with it.

[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Agree on heliboard. No issues here.

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[-] FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 20 points 5 days ago

Brave is a chrome based browser. There are a lot of Firefox forks (and no I dont recommend any because I dont wanna get into a fight...) you van and should use instead.

Otherwise great start /good choice!

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

How dare you not validate my decision to use Fennec/Mull/Waterfox/Iceraven/IronFox as the one true FireFox fork.

Conversely, how dare you suggest that stock Firefox/Nightly with the right add-ons is not good enough?

People these days...

[-] Bell@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

+1 for Firefox Nightly with add-ons, anything else is sacrilege

[-] FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We can Start a civilized discussion about, why you are wrong on every point in your post, right after you acknowledge templeOS as the only right ROM on your Phone!

The audacity... Tsk....

P.s. I love it how eveny when i tried not to offend somebody, you found something you could feel offended about :D

[-] LLMhater1312@piefed.social 13 points 5 days ago

Librewolf and waterfox over brave

[-] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

It's android, Fennec for gecko or Vanadium for chromium

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[-] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

Obtainium!

They have new community-suggested install methods for difficult-to-get apps like Proton Calendar and Proton Mail. Usually, you'd only be able to get those from the Play Store. Obtainium lets you install them directly from their Github repos.

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[-] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Sweet! May I suggest IronFox instead of Brave? https://ironfoxoss.org/docs/installation/

It's obviously degoogled chromium so who cares, but there are all these reasons: https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/

Also, these are my initial impressions: https://programming.dev/post/47806969

[-] imjustmsk@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I thought I had IronFox installed but it was fennec, but now that I'm trying to install ironfox---

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[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Same! Just moved to graphene and it's great!

1425

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 5 days ago

Looks cool. What launcher?

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[-] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 8 points 5 days ago

Molly is a hardened signal fork. Not sure how folks feel about it but I have no issues.

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 5 points 5 days ago

Magisk twice is killing me.

[-] imjustmsk@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I have 2 root ๐Ÿ‘พ

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The most important steps are moving the chip industry to europe, producing sensible meaningful hardware that is compatible with OSes other than Google and Microsoft, and then install proper applications on them.

[-] bruzzard@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Swap out Brave for Fennec (Firefox fork) to stay away from Chromium perhaps?

[-] core@leminal.space 6 points 5 days ago

One issue I've hit when de-googling is some sites/services/orgs/etc won't let me change my email. So I'm stuck with google as long as I use those sites/services/orgs.

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

With some, deleting and recreating accounts may work. Some may be tricky.

The less Google usage, the less data they get, the less they understand about who you are now.

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[-] mrnobody@reddthat.com 5 points 5 days ago

Can't you opt you have forgot password or forgot email, then when it goes to validate you chose I don't have access to this account?

I've changed some email this way

[-] core@leminal.space 4 points 5 days ago

I have purchases linked to the accounts and they can't be migrated to new accounts. Ie humble bundles, tutorials and educational materials. It sucks that there are services out there that are designed without the ability to change emails.

[-] mrnobody@reddthat.com 3 points 5 days ago

Well, tbh, they just use an email as a username a lot of times. As long as you note the old email address and password for an acct you should be good. Another option: Forward those emails with keys and other important info to a new address, or better yet, archive those all to a .PST (if you have Outlook for example) so they're available offline.

Last but not least, stop using that old email, switch all important stuff over and leave the old dormant. I DO recommend a strong password update and possible MFA since you'll seldom access it. But then you can disregard the old account and it exist for historical purposes.

[-] alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

I recommend gadget bridge if you have a smartwatch and other bluetooth objets. One app to rule them all.

https://f-droid.org/packages/nodomain.freeyourgadget.gadgetbridge

Newpipe to watch youtube without ads.

https://newpipe.net/

Voyager to surf lemmy

https://f-droid.org/packages/app.vger.voyager

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[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Can people use tailscale without single sign in. All the SSOs I saw were fascists corps.

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

It definitely supports self-hosted oicd providers like Authentik and Ophelia. If either of those are problematic I'd like to know, but they both pass the sniff test so far.

[-] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

Yes you can login without SSO to tailscale

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[-] gnawmon@ttrpg.network 3 points 5 days ago

hi, what launcher and app are you using for the dynamic island thingy?

[-] imjustmsk@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I hate the dynamic island thingy, Its part of hyperos ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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[-] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Good work! You should work on switching away from Proton's apps/services next, as their CEO has indicated his support for fascists, and they have repeatedly turned over VPN logs when nation-states come asking.

I use Mullvad's VPN and KeePass DX + Syncthing for passwords

[-] berty@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago

KeePass is awesome!

[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

I'm still not convinced that the CEOs comments conclusively prove that he's on board with the fascists, but I did find it aggravating that Proton sent emails to my gmail account saying that I had new emails from specific parties. How tf is that private?

[-] imjustmsk@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

yes, I don't have any money to pay for a VPN subscription for now but I am definitely switching my password manager.ย 

[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago
[-] imjustmsk@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I'm not a big fan of brave either, Im currently using cromite, Brave is just there in the phone I font really use it lol

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