Comment by surgical_fire

Comment by surgical_fire a day ago

De-appling is easy. I just don't have anything from them. Apart from the work laptop, but that is a problem for my employer, not me.

De-googling however is extremely hard. I have been slowly chipping away at it, but there are things I just have no decent option to (such as Waze and Android Auto).

Android itself is another problem. I have high hopes for a Graphene device.

whstl a day ago

De-Googling is also extremely easy, I haven't had a Google account in 10 years, I use uBlock to block the ads, DuckDuckGo for search and a Youtube app that downloads from it instead of using the website.

Perhaps the only thing I use directly is Recaptcha.

The bigger problem is doing both.

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celsoazevedo 21 hours ago

It's easy to use a different calendar, search engine, etc, but it's far from easy to use an Android device without Google Services. Can be done, but banking apps, contactless payments, etc, become painful or impossible.

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- whstl 10 hours ago
  
  The point is that avoiding Android is also easy. I never had an Android device and have no interest.
  Once again: The only problem is avoiding both platforms.
  
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  fsflover 2 hours ago
  
  I avoid both platforms. Librem 5 is my smartphone.
  
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