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Advice on degoogling (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by eternauta@lemmy.ml to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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I'm looking into dumping googlified android with the upcoming lockdowns.

I'm a beginner-intermediate with FOSS tech: I use Ubuntu as my main machine at home, and have Lineage on a couple of old phones that I use for things at home. I use Fdroid a lot, and have things like newpipe as well on my basic Chinese handset, along with google services.

I can't really handle bleeding edge things very well, and I'm aware that even stock android isn't perfect. Just looking for options/advice.

I understand some banking apps etc will be difficult to run outside of google, and this is something that will be tough, but I'm prepping for it.

Graphene seems to be the most popular, but at this stage my understanding is it only works on Pixel phones. I'm also aware of fairphone. I know that lineage is supported on some Oneplus phones, but I don't know how safe/secure that might be.

I know that most things aren't really 'secure' in the sense that companies all snoop, but I'm thinking about things like banking or NFC payment, which I sometimes do use.

Any advice would be helpful, even if it's just confirming that the price of escaping google might be giving up a lot of this functionality right now....

Thanks in advance!

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[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do it in stages by shifting services one at a time from a google phone to a non-google device.

(In my experience):

Easy: pics, docs Intermediate: calendar, contacts, maps solution Most difficult: email

I've been trying to de-google for more than 5 years, and email is the surprise for me. It's quite incredible how deeply interacted google and apple have made us. Once that's done, google account will be terminated.

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Interesting I'm curious what your experience has been with email. I technically still have a gmail that I just let my spam go to and access through Thunderbird, but tuta has served me very well so far for email

Understanding how your usecase or needs may be different from mine would be helpful for when I give advice to folks I know, cause I've thought of email as not being too bad

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

There's a legacy of things tied to the email account, but also auth.

However, convincing the elderly contacts that I have a new email address is harder than I thought.

[–] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I'm not the commenter, but I would guess that since gmail has been a thing forever, a ton of online accounts are tied to those emails, so it's harder that just switching emails for communication. That's my issue right now.