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Advice on degoogling (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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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My advice is get a new email and do not forward to it. It can cause a link to your identity later. Make two emails, one for things that send too much spam, and one for serious stuff like doctors and banking. Go find your banking accounts and change the email. Once you confirm the bank emails go to the right place, delete all the emails from them out of old accounts unless you need something for taxes or whatever.

Then be sure to get other stuff you need that you're might forget about. EBay, Steam account, etc and put those in the email where more spam goes. Go through google and cancel subscription that you don't need, and then delete associated emails from that source. It probably takes an hour to get through a few thousand emails. Just keep doing it from time to time until it's done. I absolutely would not forward. That just means they're going to aggregate your info IMO. Also, the info might be there for a while but is less valuable as it ages I bet.

I even made a medium account so proton, the first email I tested, wouldn't forward all my gmail spam.

That's what I'm doing. Someone might have better idea.