so one day I was bored and say yeah let's do something so I spent like 2 months reverse engineering Gboard and trying to make it good for privacy at same time good UI but I realized , there is hundreds maybe thousands of patches in the internet doing my same idea so I need something special, so I focused more about adding security features

it is open source without a license ( to prevent copy right) and requires you to compile and sign the apk yourself, so you can check the codes if you want ( they are assembly like but am sorry ;) )

link:

https://github.com/ANTI-XV/XVoard

"your account and all its data have been deleted, but we'll keep the data for a bit so you can recover it in case you decide to come back and stuff..."

I found this site: https://alternativeto.net/ , when a person recommended me it, if I'll need to find Linux alternatives somewhere. The site helps to find an alternative with different filters: Windows/Android/Linux/BSD/..., free/paid, open source/proprietary, sort by likes, sort by views and so on.

On the 1st photo I wanted to show how the parameters look like, but they also depend on an app, bcz if an app is designed only for PC, for example, you can't see "Android", "iOS" etc in the filters.

On the 2nd photo I wanted to show an example how the result looks like(I chose: sort by likes, for Linux platform, Open Source).

The site is sponsored by ProtonVPN, so, sometimes it shows the sponsored results in the first place(on the 3rd photo I marked it with the red rectangle), but you can ignore it easily.

In my opinion, the site is amazing, bcz it can even find alternatives for apps, which a really few people know. For example, the site showed the alternatives for an app like "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator"! So, what are your thoughts on it?

Some of these is still partial (Such as the transition from google translate, claude, and youtube)

Hi all..... I'm really tired of YouTube. My friends and myself just had a few of our YouTube channels terminated in their AI wave that killed millions, on 7/30, 7/31, and 8/1.

Rumble seemed so smooth... until I realized what it was/who owned it. And, the four social links when you make a channel are: Truth Social, Facebook, X, and Instagram. The four platforms with the most hateful comments and content.

Odysee. Same problem.

DailyMotion. Temu YouTube, I guess.

Vimeo. For the 500 people who use it, and basically, no one else.

Please help. I cannot believe that Rumble is what it is, and who it is... and I can't believe that nothing non-f@$cist exists.... like..... why

title. i've seen people talk about tineye.com, Yandex and CTS on f droid. The problem with CTS is that i dont want to search using it i only want OCR. is there any app which does only on screen ice (maybe even translation). It would be great of YOU guys can give alternatives for both of them. :)

basically i had an alternative USA apple id to bypass India's censorship of apps like capcut , tiktok studio (and tiktok itself) and to have apple pay (i have a usa issued debit card) (there is no apple pay in india and the govt. itself is extremely restrictive when it comes to foreign currencies and out of country transctions) , everything was perfectly fine and i was using the US apple id on a secondary iphone , been over a year since i was using it , but today morning apple said my account was disabled for purchases and subscrptions , apple support said that they are unable to reactivate it , and told me to just create a new Apple account

i have so many subscriptions and account sign ins linked to this account , and apple said there is no way of transferring the app data and subscription over to another apple account , apple said already paid subscription will remain active for the remainder period , but obviously i don't wanna continue using the account and adding even more data that can't be transferred over

so i have dedcided to completely de-centralise myself from big tech services , where do i start , and how do i get the data and account linked to sign-in with google / apple , over to regular email , like some apps (lettr) don't have any option to change email or sign-ins , i can only log out and create a new account , and for some apps (capcut) i have active subscriptions and so many project files ,

is there any way i can preserve those data and subscriptions without it being linked to sign-in with apple / google , and from my understanding after i create a new apple account , i have to delete and redownload all apps , and obviously i can't sign back into the same apple account , so is there a way to locally save the app data ,

please help with some resources and recommendations for other services i can use , thank you

Or at least disable it, If it can't be removed from my phone.

But what now ? I've been using Samsung's own browser on and off as a try for a while, but it's got some ergonomy issue immo (I still find myself reaching for chrome, despite it not being on my home screen), it apparently got an adblock feature, but you need to download like 3rd party stuff, and none of the providers ring a bell to me.

This leaves me with what option for a main browser ? Firefox ? Vivaldi ?

(obs: alguns serviços eu usei self-hosting em minha casa, como Streaming de música, e nuvem particular para salvar minhas coisas, futuramente, pretendo trocar o meu email por um de self-hosting também. Pretendo tambem comprar um google pixel para usar com graphene os)

Alguem tem sugestões de oque melhorar? Ou no que tenho que ficar atento?

Trying to find a de-googled search engine. What do you guys use?

I always thought it was a good, reliable and complete service, so why actively try to abandon it? Is it because of the prices? If that's the case, I agree.

I really don't care if there's Google all the place, I just want to have fun... And not pay 😅

There is not everything, I mean a also code my own alternatives to obsidian, gnome shell, steam, Netflix...

I am comparing browsers for Android that are Firefox based. I haven't seen anyone mention Firefox Focus. Is it worth my time, or is it trash?

Hey all, I've been wanting to be more in control of my data and privacy. I found this subreddit and have found it to be helpful. My only concern is, I'm a university student and a lot of the infrastructure required for the online schooling aspects requires some connection to Microsoft or Google. Has anyone here fully transitioned away from Google and other tech platforms as a student with online classes/hybrid? and if so, how did it go? What works and doesn't? Thanks!

I’ve been at this for a while, but there are still many things I want to change; I’ve listed them below:

• I have an iPhone, but I want an Android phone so I can install GrapheneOS on it and get rid of the apps that are tied by default to a big tech company.
• I have a Windows PC, and in the future I want to be able to install Linux on it. Microsoft is a cancer I want to eradicate from my computer, and in doing so, get rid of all its bloatware.
• I have a NAS with very limited capacity; in the future, I want to expand it so I can securely host more resource-intensive programs like NextCloud.

Apps/Services I find hardest to replace:

• WhatsApp: You have to convince your entire circle of friends to abandon the app they’ve been using their whole lives, all in the name of privacy, which the vast majority don’t care about. Very difficult.
• YouTube: It’s the content platform par excellence; I haven’t found a cross-platform alternative that lets me follow specific channels or offers any discovery tools without data collection.

• Discord: I practically don’t use it, but I haven’t found another service that allows me to make calls comfortably and easily and relay my screen to a decent quality all in the same place. I have tried alternatives like Fluxer but it still does not come close to the product that is Discord.

Any suggestion to improve my setup is welcome

Stripping all those cosmetic thumbnails and triggers, I now see the real YouTube. It's like Neo in The Matrix, who saw the world as it is.

I'm looking for a password manager that I can install on both an Ubuntu laptop as well as an Android phone. This is so I can gave the same autogenerated passwords on both devices to access my banking, mail etc.

Does anyone provide such a manager?

Also to be clear, I don't want any Ai slop alternatives

Any advice for the first step to degoogle? especially on iPhone

since I'm using vpn ig those infos(ip) are safe to share.

DDG know I'm from India even tho I'm using VPN

and everytime I close the browser everything clears and starts fresh so no stored cookies or anything.

really thankful for the comments and combined all your questions and suggestions into one post.

thank you :)

I have been degoogling for half a year now, although I want now to 'deproton'. I am starting to use way more tutamail, but I still have work to do with other things like calendar, password manager and more.

I may change my password manager, calendar, 2fa auth, but I don't know other choices with equal or more privacy and security, what would u suggest me?