I finally feel free and in control of my data!
@simop_jo Congratulations and welcome to the freedom side!
Congrats! Good job! I’m right behind you. So close…
Congrats! That what I strive for
Congrats OP! That’s really something!
For those of you still on the journey, know that you can quit individual google services. For example you can quit Gmail, but keep Youtube etc. This would also allow you to keep play store.
Thanks! I have also ditched all Microsoft services as well as windows, I also installed a custom ROM on my phone with no gapps. Every piece of software I use is foss!
What country are you in, and what type of phone/OS did you use?
Also, congrats!
I live in Greece. I have a Mi 11 Lite 5G with CrDroid 11.5 without google services
Congratulations. I’m about 50% the way there. Looking forward to the day I see this screen.
Congrats
Congrats ! and enjoy your freedom
Thanks
What about Google Play?
Aurora store
You always have fdroid and if you need somthing aurora store is here
Congratulations! That must have been quite the journey. I am getting close, but I still need to figure out a calendar service that I am happy with that works with my family and it will be hard curb my YouTube addiction.
for calender you can try tuta calender and you can watch most vids using invidious or newpipe
Thanks, good luck!
I’ve been gradually working my way towards this. Recently I switched to GrapheneOS and signed up for Tuta mail. Next step is to build a NAS and set up immich.
Good luck!
Thanks! And congrats on your escape
Did it last week myself! Feels pretty good eh?
Yep!
Congrats! How many places you had to change login email?
Way too many 😄
Congrats!
The only thing that’s stopping me from doing the same are:
- some email redirects (for some reason, I can’t update the emails on those services)
- a shonen jump subscription (for some reason, there is no option to subscribe to them directly so I have to do it through google play store 🙄)
I did move on from Youtube however, by moving my subscriptions to an RSS feed and storing my “watch later” links using Linkding (a bookmark manager). I sort of alluded to this in a recent comment: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/19041626
I’m curious what set of tools and services you settled on using instead.
planning to setup immich once my PC is repaired to ditch enteThanks.
I recently did this for one of my accounts. It was quite a few years old, but it still hurt to remove it. Backed up all old photos and said goodbye. I still have a Gmail account, but I hope to transition fully to Proton soon. Congrats, OP!
Thank you!
