De-Googlification progress
Track with me my progress in decentralizing myself on Internet and de-googling. If you have any suggestions for app alternatives, please shoot me an email! I'd love to discuss this more.
FAILED:
- Contacts - β - (Had to return to basic contact app, just disabled sync with Google account. Fossify Contacts deleted all of my contacts saved on my phone 3 times in a row and I got sick adding them back. I couldn't find anything better on F-Droid and am not trilled to do it all again, for now)
- Phone - β - (Returned to basic phone app to reduce compatibility issues, although Fossify Phone didn't seem to have problems in itself)
Browsers and search engines:
- Search engine mobile - β - (Quant, Ecosia)
- Search engine PCs x2 - β - (Quant, Ecosia)
- Browser phone - β - (?)
- Browser PCs x2 - β - (?)
Emails:
- Work email - β - (Infomaniak)
- BS/Fun email - β - (Posteo)
Texting:
- Telegram - β - (Threema)
- Discord - β - (Unchecked variants: Stoat/Fluxer)
Basic phone apps:
- Launcher - β - (OLauncher)
- Google Messages (SMS) - β - (?, Has to have RSC support)
- Google Play - β - (F-Droid)
- Notes - β - (Obsidian)
- Google photos (as a gallery app) - β - (Aves)*
- Basic photo editing - β - (?)
- Calendar App - β - (?)
- Music App - β - (CuteMusic)
- File manager - β - (Fossify File Manager)
Other:
- Blogger - β - (BearBlog)
- RSS reader - β - (FeedFlow)
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Clean-ups:
- Google drives x4
- Google docs x4
- Notes on old phone
- Telegram archives
- Music from phone to mp4 player
* - need to re-download/choose different app from non Google store
