joelvdc

joined 1 year ago
[–] joelvdc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I use iPhone, Windows (work laptop) and Linux (personal laptop), so keep that in mind when looking at my suggestions. I have also a Proton unlimited subscription.

  1. Email: Proton Mail + Simplelogin aliases / Tuta as backup
  2. Cloud storage: Proton Drive / Filen
  3. Maps: Magic Earth / OpenStreetMap
  4. Search engine: Qwant
  5. Web browser: Zen browser (Firefox fork) / Quiche browser (iOS)
  6. Calendar: Apple Calendar (our family calendar is here, hard to use something else) / Thunderbird (apple calendar caldav imported)
  7. Contacts management: Proton / iOS
  8. Notes / to-do lists: Notesnook / iOS
  9. Office suite (docs, spreadsheets, etc.): MS Office (work) / Libreoffice (personal)
  10. Messaging / chat: Signal / SimpleX
  11. Video calling: Signal
  12. Social media / microblogging RSS reader / news: Mastodon / Bluesky / Reddit / Lemmy
  13. Music streaming / podcast app: Tidal (pays artists more and Spotify donated to Trump) / Pocket Casts
  14. Video streaming / YouTube alternative: Grayjay (Windows/Linux) / Unwatched (iOS)
  15. Password manager: Proton Pass
  16. VPN / DNS / Firewall: Proton VPN
  17. Launcher / Android OS (if you use custom ROMs): iOS
  18. App store / APKs: iOS
  19. Photo backup / gallery: Proton Drive
  20. Weather: iOS
  21. Smart assistant (if any): Nope
  22. Anything else you’ve replaced? MS authenticator -> Ente Auth Reddit iOS app -> Hydra Notion -> Anytype

I know that some of my solutions are bonded to Apple, but I am also regularly searching for Apple alternatives and focus on apps that are cross platform to make a possible deApple process smoother in the future.

[–] joelvdc@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was strongly considering their plans by the time he tweeted that, made me do a 180 degrees turn and look other places for private mail services and cloud drive… After that event, he did write on the comments of a Reddit post that he’s not a Trump supporter and was distancing himself from right wing politics.

I made peace with it. Was he writing the truth or just trying to throw some water into the fire, idk. I have currently the unlimited plan and I’m happy, in the end of the day I want to support companies that are European and provide services like Proton and Tuta.

 

Crossposted from https://programming.dev/post/29115507

On February 11, 2025, Blue Shield discovered that, between April 2021 and January 2024, Google Analytics was configured in a way that allowed certain member data to be shared with Google’s advertising product, Google Ads, that likely included protected health information. Google may have used this data to conduct focused ad campaigns back to those individual members.

Blue Shield severed the connection between Google Analytics and Google Ads on its websites in January 2024.

What information was involved

  • Insurance plan name, type and group number;
  • city;
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  • gender;
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  • Blue Shield assigned identifiers for members’ online accounts;
  • medical claim service date and service provider, patient name, and patient financial responsibility;
  • “Find a Doctor” search criteria and results (location, plan name and type, provider name and type).
[–] joelvdc@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah, wait! Law should be shaped after Meta’s way of doing business, so unfair.

[–] joelvdc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I didn’t know about sink it, will have a look! I currently use hydra to access Reddit on iOS.

[–] joelvdc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] joelvdc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Fuck that, next step is linux 🚀

[–] joelvdc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Please no… I hope it can be disabled.

[–] joelvdc@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[–] joelvdc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I have had the same phone for the past 3 years, so the degoogle process started a couple of years after I got it.

[–] joelvdc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Wow, thenewoil website is great. Thanks for sharing.

[–] joelvdc@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Gotta start with what you have 🤷

[–] joelvdc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

YouTube player app. Open source, no ads, no login, just import your subscriptions and playlists and you're ready to go.

 

A process that started roughly a year ago with just changing browser and search engine, now feeling that I got somewhere. The journey ended up being more than just degoogle, but also demetaing and taking more control over my data and privacy.

Before and after picture with notes:

Chrome -> Zen browser (Firefox on iOS)

Google -> Qwant

Gmail -> Proton Mail

NordVPN -> Proton VPN (I don’t use VPN very often, but have NordVPN through another subscription, now replaced with Proton across my devices)

Google Drive / Photos -> Proton Drive

Google Password Manager -> Proton Pass

Google Authenticator -> Proton Pass / Ente (Ente Auth is only used to store my 2FA keys for the Proton account, other keys are stored in Proton Pass)

Google Translator -> DeepL

YouTube -> FreeTube (Unwatched on iOS)

Google Maps -> Magic Earth (OSM on desktop)

WhatsApp -> Signal

Notion -> Anytype

Keep / Notes -> Notesnook

X -> Mastodon / Bluesky

Reddit -> Lemmy (Voyager on iOS, dreaming of an eventual complete migration)

Instagram -> Pixelfed

Facebook -> stopped using

Windows 11 -> Ubuntu (Only personal laptop, work laptop still windows)

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