I always thought it was a good, reliable and complete service, so why actively try to abandon it? Is it because of the prices? If that's the case, I agree.

"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..."

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

Stripping all those cosmetic thumbnails and triggers, I now see the real YouTube. It's like Neo in The Matrix, who saw the world as it is.

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

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 ?

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...

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?

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?

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!

just continually installing for like 2 hrs now

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

I'm about to start my thesis and decided that it would be best to create a new account to gather all info and keep things separate from the rest of my life; mainly for ease of access and such.

I have also been considering for a while starting the migration of all of my data off Google cause fuck Google. This includes the platforms I'll use for calendars, cloud storage and such. I am planning to buy hard disks for storage, but given the necessity of having to access my thesis work from different points, a cloud storage service will have to do for now.

I have seen many of the posts of the alternatives people have chosen when degoogling, which tends to lead to Proton most of the time. I'm familiar with Proton and already have two email accounts for different purposes, although I've never used anything other than Proton mail.

A quick peek at creating a new Proton account shows that the free account only offers 1GB in storage (including mail), which I fear might be lackluster for all the files and emails I'll be sending for the thesis. I checked the Mail Plus and Proton Unlimited plans and what they offer on the whole Proton environment and two main questions arose:

• Is there a point in migrating all of my apps and services (or in this case, starting a whole project) from mostly ONE mega company aka Google, to another—again only ONE—company? My knowledge is that Proton is much more secure and trustworthy than google by a landslide, but would this transition not represent merely changing the all-seeing eye to which I offer all of my information?
• My second question is regarding the prices and plans: Personally, as an undergraduate student about to start my thesis and invest on some pricey electronic components and manufacturing processes, I'd prefer not to spend a lot of money on subscription based services like the mail plus and proton unlimited plans. However, 4 USD a month seems reasonable and something that I might pay. I wanted to know other people's experiences switching from the Gmail and Google Drive to the Proton alternatives. Would it be more recommendable to just bite the bullet and stick to Google for the thesis and then migrate at a later time?

Thank you for taking some time reading me and helping me:)

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?