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Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but has anyone used lineage OS, and is this a good Rom in order to prevent google data mining and tracking?

There has been a lot of work done to create decentralized freedom-respecting services in recent years. (Lemmy is obviously one of these). That being said video hosting seems to be one of the hardest things to replace with a decentralized solution since video files are so large and therefore expensive to host. The only serious...

Qwant promises to be privacy friendly. Seems like a good alternative to Google and DuckDuckGo.

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9483559...

PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols....

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/8237599...

I need Google for the cloud contacts storage (I’m an Android user and need a Google account for the Play Store anyway, since I use proprietary mandatory bank apps anyway and music apps I use are proprietary too and Aurora Store never works for me). For example, I don’t have a gmail, because I made the account with my proton...

The original article is in German, here are a few sections translated: “There are many tools to conduct online surveys, both for small simple surveys and for more complex surveys in a scientific setting. Some of them, such as Cryptpad Forms and LimeSurvey, are also open source - an overview. (…)...

Managed to create a pod for immich on pikapods and want to use the android app. Put the adress that pikapods bring me (don’t know where to get the ports) and then my email and password but gives me error. Anyone use it?

Runbox is a subscription-based email service located in Norway; your data is protected by strict Norwegian privacy legislation....

what alternatives to google.android.webview do we have?...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1247902...

Easy to use, E2EE, no signup required.

Quoted from GrapheneOS:...

My Google Pixel 2 was abandoned my its maker a few years back, stranded on Android 11. Today I found it again as I was rooting around in a drawer, and decided to see if it could be given a new lease of life through a custom ROM....

This is a great service which allows you to have one or multiple phone numbers in the cloud. Supports SMS and voice calls and allows you to have access to these phone numbers on multiple devices since the “phone” is in the cloud and is not a SIM on your device....

Words fail me …

r/degoogle

source code: github.com/berthubert/googerteller