Next step is to de-Apple your Iphone.
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
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Fuck that, next step is linux 🚀
De-Google but using an Apple. Yeah, Apple is soooo much better than Google 😂
As I mentioned in other comments, I didn’t buy a new phone to degoogle. I’m sure there are more people on the same boat. And this is a degoogle group.
After experiencing the iPhone 3 and MacBook pro 2009 I knew I'd never want to give Apple my money anymore. Boy did they try to scam me. "Broken hard drive? (500gb non-SSD) Sure, well fix it! 600 euros!" I'll never sell my soul to Apple anymore.
Hmm people keep talking about qwant I wonder what it's like...
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lol wtf
Reddit -> Lemmy (Voyager on iOS, dreaming of an eventual complete migration)
I too long for when communities (Indian and some niche ones) have more activity on Lemmy. They exist here, but have no activity after their creation. Until things pick up, I continue to access Reddit on iOS using SinkIt.
YouTube -> FreeTube (Unwatched on iOS)
Thank you for sharing about Unwatched. It fills the void in iOS that Tubular fills perfectly in Android.
P.S.
I am not entirely sure why, but I remember seeing Unwatched’s creator @[email protected]/@[email protected] quite often back when Lemmy iOS apps were starting off (Mlem, Memmy, WefWef, etc.) in the fall of 2023, perhaps he was a major contributor or creator of such apps.
I didn’t know about sink it, will have a look! I currently use hydra to access Reddit on iOS.
Am I only one who doesn't like proton services?
For some reasons, I don't get the OTP emails in proton mail. Just the OTP emails..
Imagine spending 1k USD and then Not using any what you paid for lmao
Wdym? 😭
Isnt iPhone already degoogled?
Yes, but iOS is even more closed than Android which makes all iPhones a small prison for open-minded and privacy oriented people.
Google is Big Tech, logs everything. Apple is Big Tech too, but only logs tiny less than Google. All Big Tech is a big no-no if you're privacy oriented. This applies to all services that uses Big Tech, too.
Here's my response to the -2 votes or whatever it is called. I bet it's because of the last sentence. If you surf a website with a browser with uBlock Origin and blocks Big Tech, that's good. But a lot of people visits websites and allows everything, feeding Big Tech with even more data than they already have. That was why I wrote it is a big no-no even services that uses Big Tech. Signal included.
I feel like my story is a lot similar to yours almost a year ago now I saw a YouTube video about degoogling. It caused me to switch to Firefox with betterfox on the betterfox github pages there was a new oil link which I read and followed ultimately leading me to all of this and so much more.
Wow, thenewoil website is great. Thanks for sharing.
Saved! Good work and thank you.
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Saving this post. I have been deGoogling as much as I can but havent done the research to find some of these options. Thanks
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