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If you care about privacy, these are the Google Keep alternatives to switch to
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Did you know: you can fully sign out of Google on your phone and still use it? You can download an alt app store like F-Droid for most apps, or use APKeep from EFF to get those certain app installers. Or Aurora store, but I'm less familiar with that, and assume it's the same principle as APKeep. I also recommend NetGuard to individually handle what apps are allowed to use internet access.
Either way, you may not be able to fully remove Google from Android without a custom ROM, but there's still a lot you can do.
Thats a super helpful suggestion, thank you!
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I haven't had a Google account on my phone for a long time now, although I'm not really sure how effective this strategy is in terms of privacy.
In any case, the downsides of this choice are minimal. Only apps that are closely tied to a Google account—like Keep, Calendar, Play Store, etc.—don't work; everything else works fine.
With this approach, for example, I can use Android Auto without any issues, for which there are currently no alternatives 😓
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