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Samsung → iPhone: Need Your De-Google Tips (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by twikz@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Note: I prefer Apple over Google and I’m not ready to go full privacy-hardened, I want to find a balance between convenience and privacy protection.

So I'm moving from Samsung to iPhone soon, mainly because I despise Google. Want to cut Google out as much as possible while I'm at it.

What I'm planning so far:

Mailbox.org instead of Gmail
DuckDuckGo for search, would prefer something even better
Safari with all the privacy stuff turned on

Where I'm stuck:

What about YouTube? Just use the web version?
Google Drive alternatives that actually work well?
Best way to store photos that aren't big greedy corps?

Questions:

Any must-have privacy apps once I get the iPhone?
Settings I should change immediately out of the box?
Services I'm forgetting that are probably feeding Google my data?

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[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz [S] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Regarding Apple, That's what I feel too, but I don't feel like going Pixel and GrapheneOS or fairphone etc.

But I still want to optimize my privacy and move to open source alternatives where I can without sacrificing too much

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

IMO, Apple is the least bad option because they don’t sell your data to anyone else. They absolutely gather every speck they can about you to use for their own purposes, but I do not believe they sell. Not nearly the way Google monetizes you, at the very least.

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[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz [S] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the way I think of it also

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[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah and let’s not forget that depending on your job it’s doable.

My employer is giving me an iphone so I can’t use anything else except if I had a second phone, which would be really annoying for me.

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[+] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Agreed, but carrying two phones, charging them and paying for them would be too annoying and wasteful.

But I know that my employer could see a lot of my infos if he wanted to. Luckily I trust my employer way more than all these companies like Apple or Google who already have acces to our data.