DeGoogle Yourself

If you've never tried Nebula before, here are some one-week guest passes you can use.

Nebula is an ad-free streaming platform that focuses on quality, with a curated set of creators, and original content. It's a decent alternative to YouTube, and although their list of creators is still small, some of your favourite YouTubers might already be there, like Tom Scott, Captain Disillusion, Philosophy Tube, Legal Eagle, Becky Stern, Man Carrying Thing, and more.

Here are the codes. One per person, please. Visit https://nebula.tv/redeem to sign up and redeem.

Replace DASH with a hyphen.

Update: These codes are taken, there are more from good people in the comments!

• Code A
  ~~ad9a93ab-920f-4bea-9ef4 DASH 7cb203e59a98~~
• Code B
  ~~0118d334-d6b4-4c91-a5d7 DASH 6b1af25d7f87~~
• Code C
  ~~65a0c52a-9a45-44b8-81fe DASH 14918a17aa09~~

I get three of these every month, so I'll post them here when they renew, unless a mod tells me not to. Just trying to help people find alternatives to YouTube (and Google).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45309948

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90% of the time right means 10% of the time wrong, huge deal when you deal with billions of queries! **

I've been using a degoogled customROM on a Pixel phone for years now. As a camera app I've been using firewalled Gcam, i.e. the official Google camera app, but forced to be offline.

Since the phone and the custom ROM have reached end of life, I need to switch to a new phone, and I'm considering a FairPhone.

Hence, I'd like to ask all users of degoogled FairPhones: which camera app do you use, and how well does it work as compared to stock?

Can someone make a pinned post like the magathread on the degoogle subreddit for degoogled ROMs

I am planning to buy a new phone since my current 6-year-old one's screen is getting problematic.

I don't live on the European or American continents, and my country is rather short on choices—we only have Samsung, Apple, Huawei and other Chinese brands.

Importing is not an option because the prices rise to five to tenfold, and I cannot afford that since the already available ones are more expensive than the rest of the world here.

Which available brands and models can I easily DeGoogle and dodge other big corporation bulls?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/48310133

This is a shoutout to the app QuickTiles and the developer and contributors thereof.

While at first glance it may not seem like a privacy focused app, however, ultimately, improving digital privacy is more often than not a balance between convenience/ease of use and, well, privacy^[There will always be know-it-alls and above-it-alls in the privacy community who trashtalk normies and/or beginners, acting like this and that is never a tradeoff. If you happen to be one of those, think about whether your attitude helps or hampers our efforts.]

I was almost about to let out a big sigh, thinking do I have to learn kotlin and java for this...? and then I found this app. It has some neat "add-ons" for the quick tiles panel on Android systems. Personally, I was looking for a quick setting to enable/disable data saver. This app had a "data usage" tile, which reduces the amount of requires "clicks" from 5 to 2.

Hi everyone! I'm still pretty new to the foss world and am actively working to de-google my life. I got a cheap used laptop and just installed Linux Mint so I can get some practice with Linux in general (raised as a Windows kid) and I have definitely appreciated the ease of Linux Mint, but I do plan to explore many other distros in the future as well.

I currently have the following:

Email: ProtonMail (and looking into Thunderbird and Tuta).

Messaging: Signal as my main, but I also have Molly that I am planning to migrate over once I can get my family on board.

Browser: Been heavily experimenting with this as I used to use the default browser (I have a Galaxy S23FE) and then switched to Firefox Focus while simultaneously checking out Brave (no, it's not still on my phone), however I am currently using IronFox as my main on my phone and LibreWolf as my main on my computers.

File storage: Proton Drive

Calendar: TimeTree (for friends/family) and Proton Calendar for personal.

VPN: Proton (I have the package deal) but have also been researching Mullvad as a possible future alternative.

Password Manager: Proton Pass (would be open to suggestions on others. I've heard BitWarden thrown around)

YouTube alternatives: Still playing around with LibreTube, FreeTube, and PeerTube, but I really like LibreTube's layout, just wish they'd pull the comments section too :/

Images/Videos: Also Proton Drive, but that's more of just a backup of them. Any suggestions in this area would be appreciated too!

I haven't had a chance to look heavily into it yet, but does anyone have any resources/knowledge on any banks that are foss-friendly? I'm in the US and there's plenty of laws around mandatory data, but if anyone knows of a bank that stops at that, I'd love to hear! I do eventually plan to go all-cash/pre-paid gift/credit cards, but a bank account seems necessary for now...

Anyways, please feel free to give me any and all suggestions! Thanks!

So I've spent hours deleting gmail emails on an account I've held on to despite moving to other providers. Had it for decades now. When I'm done switching the last of my accounts to my new emails, I think I'm going to make fake profiles in cat forums and select all the notifications I can just to fill Googles servers with bullshit.

In the days of memory shortages, I'm definitely not just giving them that 15 GB of space for them to use it to store and sell other's info while they use the cash to buy legislation. It sure would be terrible if others wasted all their storage that way too. Fill it up with emails about crazy conspiracy shit, Jesus, and Grindr messages.

Hi, this suggestion is for the sub's moderators. As you know, many privacy/de-Googling services require paid subscriptions (like Proton, Tuta, Kagi, addy.io, Notesnook, etc.), and it turns out many of us can't afford to pay for all of them every month or year. My suggestion is that the sub's moderators set aside one day every month to highlight service subscriptions that are on sale; this would help the community A LOT in several ways. Upvote if you agree and share your thoughts in the comments, thanks for your attention (:

A person has added MMS support to the 3rd party Android app which many VOIP.ms users use for SMS and they are requesting user testing before submitting a pull request; see above link

Its a good degoogle phone?

keepandroidopen.org

I LOVE F-droid.

suggest me any more cool apps I can get.

UPDATE: Got rid of Brave 🙃, I wasnt using it anyway but here you go the updated list.

Pronounced "searching".

I am so close to completely being degoogled, the last nail in the coffin is my tv.

I have a very old Sony Bravia (over 20 years old), it has a Firestick to get access to Plex and Smarttube, these are the only apps I use. I also have a Mycloud server for Plex.

I have heard you can stream through Raspberry Pi, but am an absolute beginner in this area and don't even know where to start.

• Which Pi do I get?
• Can I get Plex and SmartTubeNext on it?
• How do I set it up?

I just need a start point, guide, tutorial, anything to get this last little bit of privacy interfering tech out of my life.

Thanks!

I have my regular cell number of course but I also have a google voice number. I've used GV as a work number for over a decade so that I can set it to DND when I'm off. I would like to keep two numbers without google voice tho. What are my options? Can I use the number with the signal app? Thanks

If you've never tried Nebula before, here are some one-week guest passes you can use. Nebula is an ad-free streaming platform that focuses on quality, with a curated set of creators, and original content. It's a decent alternative to YouTube, and although their list of creators is still small, some of your favourite YouTubers might already be there.

One per person, please:

https://nebula.tv/redeem/?redemption_code=88395e26-483b-4760-98a4-2d9ebb49fb07

https://nebula.tv/redeem/?redemption_code=7428e2a2-ea90-4909-b8f9-a3448de35172

https://nebula.tv/redeem/?redemption_code=880a57ec-8a2e-4c41-b440-316d41cae8c2

I get three of these every month, so I'll post them here when they renew, unless a mod tells me not to. Just trying to help people find alternatives to YouTube (and Google).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44525355

This is only the beginning

Google steals people's content through AI summaries, trains off their work and now is looking to rewrite their articles

The good news is that there are legitimate alternatives

SWITCH TODAY!

All resources you need 👇

• Kagi -> For a paid ad-free premium experience
• Ecosia -> Similar experience to Google while supporting a good cause
• Qwant -> Building its own results based in the EU
• DuckDuckGo -> Privacy-focused search

Detailed guide: https://purchasewithpurpose.io/category/search-engine/

I mean the videos that appear IN the player not the side bar.. i have unhook but doesnt block these.. thanks

First of all hi all! I am a software engineer and in my free time I develop self-hostable alternative to big tech products (see Jotty and Cr*nmaster for example), been quiet with my head down lately improving my apps and trying to build a searxng alternative for myself.

Whilst I have used searxng for about a year now, I have had quite a few personal gripes with it (mostly stuff I personally would prefer worked differently) so in the past few weeks I have decided to make my take on it and ran it happily locally. Since publishing the beta to my discord server I ended up building a fairly extensive tool.

Degoog is actually pretty minimal, there's no much to it aside from a very comprehensive plugin/extension system. The idea being users can create their own engines, themes and plugins that hook into the core application and do.. pretty much anything, from adding stuff to the result page (e.g. speedtests, tmdb information, ip retrieval, rss feeds embedded on the home page) to full on OIDC systems.

This is still in beta and I figured the best way to get it out of beta would be to publish it to a wider audience (currently some users in our discord server and from /c/selfhosted have been testing it fairly successfully and i've been on top of bug fixing). Last BIG thing to do is coming up with a good name for the official release, I'll create a community poll for it and ask opinions on the repo discussion tabs too.

Repo: https://github.com/fccview/degoog

Official extensions: https://github.com/fccview/fccview-degoog-extensions

Docs: https://fccview.github.io/degoog

You can install custom plugins/extensions. You can make your own repo and add it to the store page in the settings, or you can just have your own plugins locally for yourself.

Let me know what you think, ask any questions and feel free to join our discord (link in releases page on any of my apps) for a more direct chat about things <3