A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Great job, keep your motivation!
But you shouldn’t use any apple product, they are as bad for privacy as using Google’s one. Do not use an iPhone (lineageos is pretty good to use), do not use Apple’s services… And keep going
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Once I get a Linux phone, I’ll be totally Google-free. That’ll be a sweet day.
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Ubuntu Touch is still available for the Pinephone, as far as I know. I intended to get a Pinephone Pro next time I need a phone, but then I read about the Furi FLX1 and I have to say, it sounds pretty great. Although it doesn’t sound like any other distros will run on it besides what comes on it.
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I have started this in the last year, I hadn’t considered it by breaking it down by media consumption/storage/browsing habits etc. I am so sick of feeling alike a sales target, and a tool that can be influenced. I do also like the idea of attacking it by provider. I have recently started to cut Amazon out, gotten rid of my Alexa’s, stopped buying and my fire sticks are going soon.
An area I struggle with is maps and travel. I am iPhone and I like to listen to tunes when I am driving and I rely on maps, for routes and to find local services coffee food etc. sometimes I feel like my own worst enemy in my quests.
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Using Apple to DeGoogle is a tough one to swallow
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Flashing Graphene on Pixel or eOS on supported Nothing devices is quite easy TBH. I might even do that
This is what i did. Bye bye IPhone and new Pixel 9 Pro running Graphene OS. I never been happier and not missing anything.
Yeah it’s just the Pixels are becoming quite expensive. I liked it when the A series was under $400
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I’m on an old Motorola with Lineage. I don’t want to pay $500 for a phone so I was thinking of getting the Nothing CMF and installing eOS
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Digital Privacy is an ever evolving endeavor. What I was okay with a year ago, isn’t the same as where I am today.
I am still mid-journey of de-googling, de-microsofting, de-big-techifying my life.
The more and more the digital landscape changes, the more and more we have to be cautious of.
I went from using all the google services, all of the microsoft services, and more of big tech’s services. But at what cost? What was free really only made me the product. My data was and still is to some degree being used, bought, sold by many different providers.
So I have been working towards self-hosting anything that matters to me. File storage, self hosted. Media consumption, self hosted (mostly.)
I have one as far as running a pihole, with my own upstream DNS. Mix that with the only way to access my self hosted things through VPN. And beyond that other security/privacy measures.
The goalpost for being more private, and more secure, is ever changing. The goal is to minimize my exposure.
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I don’t Nextcloud currently, but I have considered it. Currently I have everything I want on a drive connected to my docker box, and if I need it I SCP it to or from that server. My need for files stored at home isn’t exactly huge. But nextcloud or similar is in the pipeline.
I am on the move often too, but because I can VPN into my network, and use the pihole+unbound DNS on my GrapheneOS phone all the time, I always have access to my stuff.
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My apologies; I have a computer running docker, who I hosts a plethora of services. I have an external drive connected to it (because i don’t have a NAS) and have it mounted to my underlying OS on that Docker server computer. And each container than needs it, mounts directories from that drive.
All of this is internal network only. And another server manages VPN connectivity to my home network. So I have remote access to everything I need with minimal ports forwarded.
Why iCloud for banking and proton for everything else?
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Not OP, but using a similar setup: iCloud for government, banks, and a custom domain with Proton Mail for everything else. A few major banks here in my country have hardcoded domain names to include only Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, and a few local providers. The same is true for the Income Tax portal. Out of the given options, iCloud is relatively more private.
I’ve encountered a few other websites doing this kind of lazy implementation. Hide My Email by Apple works in such cases too, where I don’t want to disclose my primary iCloud address, which is accepted globally especially since it ends with @icloud.com.
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I’m right there alongside you, was pretty deep in Apple and decided to pick up an unlocked Pixel 8 and start working on de-Appleing and de-Googling as much as possible. I’m using Lineage for now, after trying Graphene for a bit.
I’m beyond pissed at how much money I’ve spent on apple products that are either almost entirely useless now (apple watch) or are severely nerfed (airpods, Apple TV, just even signing into a fucking Apple account with MFA) now that I don’t use an iPhone.
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I wrote up a whole thing on Discord but can’t find it now, but the gist of it is that at the moment I’m not particularly worried about my phone being compromised via exploits and my safety isn’t immediately at risk. My big motivator at the moment is trying to give Google duller claws to sink into me, and Lineage is fine for that at the moment.
Graphene due to its nature sacrifices a lot of quality of life features in the name of security. I found that a few apps would simply segfault on open, even with the security options disabled for the app. Multitasking was essentially non-existent, swiping between two apps trying to reference then type something? Good luck, both apps will do a complete reload on every swipe. Small things like that. Graphene is definitely a viable option if or when shit absolutely hits the fan and I am concerned about safety and exploits, but for now I’m much more happy on Lineage.
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I can highly recommend Magic Earth as a Google Maps alternative (also available for Android). It uses OSM data and has some traffic info. It’s not as good as Google, but it’s the closest I’ve found so far.
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I actually use both apps, I find Organic Maps a lot nicer for looking at a map and navigating by foot or bike, and Magic Earth seems to pick more sensible car routes some times. Also the live traffic data makes it more fitting for car navigation (Organic Maps doesn’t have traffic data).
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On iPhone/iOS you can download content blockers to have adblocking on it(Limited to Safari only); Personally I use Adguard Pro.
I think I’ve seen some people use a VPN/DNS to have systemwide blocking but I’ve not looked into that personally as my router supports it.
I use Collabora Office as my Office Suite, again on iOS; LibreOffice on my computers.
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I’ve never noticed any ads so it does it job for me. As for Collabora Office, It is to my knowledge - https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online (It’s also used for the iOS/Android apps).
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They’re the commercial wing of LibreOffice from what I know for enterprise.
Try using Organic Maps for OSM. Much more beautiful than osmAnd imo. As for office, try using LibreOffice. Very beautiful and smooth software!
Organic maps is great !
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There is an Organic Maps ios app which I use to mostly good effect. Occasionally have to fall back to Google maps and then I make a note to update OSM with the details missing where possible later.
No worries <3! Isn’t it on the App store? On looking it up, it shows that it’s available here. I don’t know though, as I don’t own any Apple devices.
Definitely! I’m a sucker for the native gtk apps. So I may be a little biased when I say this, but it’s WAY better than Microsoft office from a UI standpoint. All Microsoft products just feel cheap to me.
Awww I’m so glad haha. Guess what? I’m developing a Lemmy client app right now, and this is the first “real” comment I made which was outside the pure test oriented comments! Interesting firsts, eh?
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Awww thanks!! <3
Yes, eventually. I’m developing in react native (one codebase, many platforms). I own an Android though, so all physical testing is on this phone. Therefore, all alphas and stuff like that are being built for Android for now. Unfortunately, building and testing for iOS is a massive pain in the ass. I think I would have to take the help of some iOS dev for this in the future/get an old iPhone or something.
Aww thanks for the interest! It’s not ready enough imo to share it publicly for now. However, it’s getting there quickly! Can’t wait for the day I can share the repo link on the Lemmy app development communities!
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Aww thank you so much!!! <333