I recently took my old Samsung S7 wiped it & de-Googled it in order to create a secure phone for business use only in order to protect clients info & offer privacy from my end. De-Googling your life is an arduous task in 2021 since nearly every aspect of our lives are tied to the ease of which Google makes it for them to rob us of our private data. From Google maps & location tracking to emails & websearching all these microprints are gathered to create a fingerprint that identifies you with near 100% accuracy. The first step to breaking away is to replace the bloatware filled OS that comes on most phones (Fairphone is one exception) personally I like LineageOS but here is a list of 13 possible ROMs you can use to start your journey. ** https://itsfoss.com/open-source-alternatives-android/ Once you have an OS installed the next installations NEED to be Exodus to verify the tracking data of everything you install, Aurora Store & Aurora Droid. Aurora Store allows you to anonymously access & install apps from Google Play without logging in & Aurora Droid gives you access to FDroid & also the ability to add your own databases to sources you trust. With this in place you are well on your way to freeing yourself from the Googlechains. **Photo by Ola Dapo from Pexels
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I use many of the Google services and I do need them at the moment, but maybe in the future I may ditch google once I have enough incentive to leave, at the moment it makes my life much easier when it comes to the internet.
Amazing job done there. Thanks for helping to free the people from Google's claws I am personally still very dependent on their services, but slowly I've switched some of them starting with search engine
Also off-topic, but I'm glad u/seaticket re-noised this so I found a new worthy profile to subscribe to. It's been a while
De-Googling. Must do.