cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/31024070
Making the jump from Samsung to iPhone soon, mainly for privacy reasons. 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?
That’s funny, if I truly wanted zero spyware, I’d go with a Fairphone running /e/OS. But even then, I’d still need certain government apps to function as a citizen. Since I prefer Apple over Google and I’m not ready to go full privacy-hardened, I’d rather find a balance between convenience and privacy protection.
Why don’t you use /e/os or another custom rom? all android apps work perfectly fine on custom rom’s it shouldn’t really be any different from Samsung except there is less spyware.
Also you can just stick with samsung and just turn off as much telemetry as possible, there is a much better ecosystem of foss apps on android + the ability to use third party repositories like f-droid, obtanium and accresent.
I said in my post that I dont like google, dont like the ui or ux of anything related to google.
I don’t like the ux on Samsung either, and I kind of got stuck with this phone a bit back by my own fault.
I don’t think ios is a better solution for privacy or anything related to that, I just prefer iOS and I wanted to see what my options are when I make the switch, I apologize if I offend anyone for mentioning iOS.
The reason for not using a custom rom on my Samsung is because alot of people have been telling me to stick to stock OS on Samsung, its the recommended thing to do for security if I remember correctly (got told this by a guy in the grapheneOS community)
When you replace one evil with another evil of the same kind, your situation hasn’t become any better. Also, it is quite ironic that you say ‘balance’ for that.
How is it ironic, I want to find a balance with privacy and convenience.
What people have told me earlier, is that it’s a bunch of sacrificing to have better privacy.
I’ve tried graphenOS on a pixel, not using and having google track you means you lose the convenience of really good gps accuracy. For me using only Mozillas location service resulted in slow and inaccurate GPS, could probably have tried to tinker more with it but it had problems even under roofs to get a lock on my location.
That doesn’t work for me when my phone is a tool. That’s an example of a sacrifice I don’t feel like making in my life right now, I also need to use some microsoft and google products for what I’m studying for, which means I cant get rid of privacy invasive stuff altogether, which is why im asking here to see what my options are so I can put something together that works for me