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Another deGoogled iPhone (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A process that started roughly a year ago with just changing browser and search engine, now feeling that I got somewhere. The journey ended up being more than just degoogle, but also demetaing and taking more control over my data and privacy.

Before and after picture with notes:

Chrome -> Zen browser (Firefox on iOS)

Google -> Qwant

Gmail -> Proton Mail

NordVPN -> Proton VPN (I don’t use VPN very often, but have NordVPN through another subscription, now replaced with Proton across my devices)

Google Drive / Photos -> Proton Drive

Google Password Manager -> Proton Pass

Google Authenticator -> Proton Pass / Ente (Ente Auth is only used to store my 2FA keys for the Proton account, other keys are stored in Proton Pass)

Google Translator -> DeepL

YouTube -> FreeTube (Unwatched on iOS)

Google Maps -> Magic Earth (OSM on desktop)

WhatsApp -> Signal

Notion -> Anytype

Keep / Notes -> Notesnook

X -> Mastodon / Bluesky

Reddit -> Lemmy (Voyager on iOS, dreaming of an eventual complete migration)

Instagram -> Pixelfed

Facebook -> stopped using

Windows 11 -> Ubuntu (Only personal laptop, work laptop still windows)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Try Impressia for PixelFed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Voyager is great but you should give Mlem a shot!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What's unwatched?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

YouTube player app. Open source, no ads, no login, just import your subscriptions and playlists and you're ready to go.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

YouTube -> FreeTube (Unwatched on iOS)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Saved! Good work and thank you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like my story is a lot similar to yours almost a year ago now I saw a YouTube video about degoogling. It caused me to switch to Firefox with betterfox on the betterfox github pages there was a new oil link which I read and followed ultimately leading me to all of this and so much more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Wow, thenewoil website is great. Thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reddit -> Lemmy (Voyager on iOS, dreaming of an eventual complete migration)

I too long for when communities (Indian and some niche ones) have more activity on Lemmy. They exist here, but have no activity after their creation. Until things pick up, I continue to access Reddit on iOS using SinkIt.

YouTube -> FreeTube (Unwatched on iOS)

Thank you for sharing about Unwatched. It fills the void in iOS that Tubular fills perfectly in Android.

P.S.

I am not entirely sure why, but I remember seeing Unwatched’s creator @[email protected]/@[email protected] quite often back when Lemmy iOS apps were starting off (Mlem, Memmy, WefWef, etc.) in the fall of 2023, perhaps he was a major contributor or creator of such apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I didn’t know about sink it, will have a look! I currently use hydra to access Reddit on iOS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Hmm people keep talking about qwant I wonder what it's like...

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