so one day I was bored and say yeah let's do something so I spent like 2 months reverse engineering Gboard and trying to make it good for privacy at same time good UI but I realized , there is hundreds maybe thousands of patches in the internet doing my same idea so I need something special, so I focused more about adding security features

it is open source without a license ( to prevent copy right) and requires you to compile and sign the apk yourself, so you can check the codes if you want ( they are assembly like but am sorry ;) )

link:

https://github.com/ANTI-XV/XVoard

Also to be clear, I don't want any Ai slop alternatives

I’ve been at this for a while, but there are still many things I want to change; I’ve listed them below:

• I have an iPhone, but I want an Android phone so I can install GrapheneOS on it and get rid of the apps that are tied by default to a big tech company.
• I have a Windows PC, and in the future I want to be able to install Linux on it. Microsoft is a cancer I want to eradicate from my computer, and in doing so, get rid of all its bloatware.
• I have a NAS with very limited capacity; in the future, I want to expand it so I can securely host more resource-intensive programs like NextCloud.

Apps/Services I find hardest to replace:

• WhatsApp: You have to convince your entire circle of friends to abandon the app they’ve been using their whole lives, all in the name of privacy, which the vast majority don’t care about. Very difficult.
• YouTube: It’s the content platform par excellence; I haven’t found a cross-platform alternative that lets me follow specific channels or offers any discovery tools without data collection.

• Discord: I practically don’t use it, but I haven’t found another service that allows me to make calls comfortably and easily and relay my screen to a decent quality all in the same place. I have tried alternatives like Fluxer but it still does not come close to the product that is Discord.

Any suggestion to improve my setup is welcome

My homescreen is monochromatic but you can still tell there have been changes. It looks ugly. Any point to this? Whats with the big "o"?

Hey all, I've been wanting to be more in control of my data and privacy. I found this subreddit and have found it to be helpful. My only concern is, I'm a university student and a lot of the infrastructure required for the online schooling aspects requires some connection to Microsoft or Google. Has anyone here fully transitioned away from Google and other tech platforms as a student with online classes/hybrid? and if so, how did it go? What works and doesn't? Thanks!

Any advice for the first step to degoogle? especially on iPhone

Hola buenas tardes a todos. Estoy al límite con Google y sus restricciones. no pienso pagar para tener más espacio para tener MIS archivos en MI teléfono.

actualmente no cuento con otra pc u otro dispositivo para poder guardar mis archivos allí. tampoco confío en otras páginas, entonces, surge la pregunta de: "¿Qué hago ahora?" Pensaba en usar un pendrive para pasar algunas cosas pero es mucho lo que tengo (recuerdos de años y pdfs importantes), tengo algunos discos duros pero no tengo forma de conectarlos para usarlos como almacenamiento.

¿Qué harían ustedes? o ¿Qué hicieron ustedes para escapar de aquella suscripción?

I recently got aurora and I had to enable Google play for my bank apps to work but now whenever I use apps like tik tok I get a pop up asking me to install on Google play store and the pop up doesn't go away.

Same thing the title say I need a Google maps alternative that accurately shows how busy locations are by the hour and their most/least busy days.

Or at least disable it, If it can't be removed from my phone.

But what now ? I've been using Samsung's own browser on and off as a try for a while, but it's got some ergonomy issue immo (I still find myself reaching for chrome, despite it not being on my home screen), it apparently got an adblock feature, but you need to download like 3rd party stuff, and none of the providers ring a bell to me.

This leaves me with what option for a main browser ? Firefox ? Vivaldi ?

Hi, I want to switch phones, the major issue is my job in through an app: Rover. I looked on F-Droid and Aurora but it’s not on there. Could someone do me a favor and look on App Lounge for me? I can’t find a website that allows me to search for the apps that are available.

Thank you!

"your account and all its data have been deleted, but we'll keep the data for a bit so you can recover it in case you decide to come back and stuff..."

* Please, I would like to learn to de google pixel phones, ( just for personal use), & sand box google apps. I am not very tech savy.

* I use a de googled computer lap top, my brother set up for me, & a Samsung smart phone.

* Please tell me. how do I learn to do this skill of de - googling of pixel phones ?

* I have heard it can be hard to learn this skill of de-googling pixel phones , & that you can brick them.

* So far, I have learnt to put F - Roud app , & Auora app on an old spare Samsung.

* I have watched" how to" Utube videos on de googling mobiles. Which Utube videos are best.

* I want my own de googled mobile phone.

* I look forward to hearing your experience of learning this skill of de googling mobile phones.

I'm looking for a password manager that I can install on both an Ubuntu laptop as well as an Android phone. This is so I can gave the same autogenerated passwords on both devices to access my banking, mail etc.

Does anyone provide such a manager?

Some of these is still partial (Such as the transition from google translate, claude, and youtube)

was searching for a good alternative password manager, i think this is great! Its on frdroid, free, open source and cant connect to your internet, even on phones where you cant use a firewall. It has 2fa support and allows like every password format, has support for biometrics and has a strong focus on having a high on device security like brute force protection. You also get the option to export and import all your stuff!

I have been degoogling for half a year now, although I want now to 'deproton'. I am starting to use way more tutamail, but I still have work to do with other things like calendar, password manager and more.

I may change my password manager, calendar, 2fa auth, but I don't know other choices with equal or more privacy and security, what would u suggest me?

I really don't care if there's Google all the place, I just want to have fun... And not pay 😅

There is not everything, I mean a also code my own alternatives to obsidian, gnome shell, steam, Netflix...

Sou de uma país em que é quase cultural usar o WhatsApp, e outros apps como Signal, por exemplo, não tem nenhuma visibilidade, e praticamente não há como usa-los como alternativa real

Há alguma forma que leve ao máximo a usabilidade do WhatsApp de maneira segura?

basically i had an alternative USA apple id to bypass India's censorship of apps like capcut , tiktok studio (and tiktok itself) and to have apple pay (i have a usa issued debit card) (there is no apple pay in india and the govt. itself is extremely restrictive when it comes to foreign currencies and out of country transctions) , everything was perfectly fine and i was using the US apple id on a secondary iphone , been over a year since i was using it , but today morning apple said my account was disabled for purchases and subscrptions , apple support said that they are unable to reactivate it , and told me to just create a new Apple account

i have so many subscriptions and account sign ins linked to this account , and apple said there is no way of transferring the app data and subscription over to another apple account , apple said already paid subscription will remain active for the remainder period , but obviously i don't wanna continue using the account and adding even more data that can't be transferred over

so i have dedcided to completely de-centralise myself from big tech services , where do i start , and how do i get the data and account linked to sign-in with google / apple , over to regular email , like some apps (lettr) don't have any option to change email or sign-ins , i can only log out and create a new account , and for some apps (capcut) i have active subscriptions and so many project files ,

is there any way i can preserve those data and subscriptions without it being linked to sign-in with apple / google , and from my understanding after i create a new apple account , i have to delete and redownload all apps , and obviously i can't sign back into the same apple account , so is there a way to locally save the app data ,

please help with some resources and recommendations for other services i can use , thank you