Anyone deleted their google account?

[Wode]

- I'm going to buy a second Pixel device to install grapheneos and see if it's worth it to make the switch (it doesn't have play store on it). Pixel OS is fine apart from having play store and a few minor issues like having some bugs if I replace the default phone app.
- I have moved to a non-google mail server (with my custom domain name) and having lots of spam-related issues so far. I'm thinking about moving back to gmail with the professional version where you can use your own domain name. But first I'll try a few other providers. Spam is the only issue.
- Can't find any decent alternative to google.com, youtube and google maps
- For a google drive replacement there's nextcloud. Mobile app sucks big time but it kinda gets the job done
- Replaced chrome with firefox 1 or 2 years ago and never looked back
- Replaced google notes with standard notes. Note that standard notes is not totally open source (proprietary plugins) but anything other than globalist apps is better for me

 

[Suburban Yahoo]

For America to live, Google must die.

Put your Hazmat suit on before you go over here (it's REDDIT), but it's decent if you're interested in de-Googling:

Reddit de-Google

I have a Pixel 4a as a backup, to keep tabs on this evil empire (and check gmail, which I haven't deleted but still have some useful things going, unfortunately). In fact, that's the only place I do anything Google. Truth is, I got it last August then decided to deGoogle.

But I got an iPhone for my main Phone / CIA Tracker (I'm now an iPhag). No Google on there. I use a Fastmail account for my email, contacts, and calendar. I use Firefox for browsing and Duck Duck Go for search. It's good enough for me.

Side note: that Pixel 4a takes great pictures, beats my iPhone 12 all the time.

I also have a NextDNS account that I've configured my iPhone to use as DNS, so it blocks a lot of tracking that apps do and some Apple does.

 

[Wode]

For America to live, Google must die.

Put your Hazmat suit on before you go over here (it's REDDIT), but it's decent if you're interested in de-Googling:

Reddit de-Google

I have a Pixel 4a as a backup, to keep tabs on this evil empire (and check gmail, which I haven't deleted but still have some useful things going, unfortunately). In fact, that's the only place I do anything Google. Truth is, I got it last August then decided to deGoogle.

But I got an iPhone for my main Phone / CIA Tracker (I'm now an iPhag). No Google on there. I use a Fastmail account for my email, contacts, and calendar. I use Firefox for browsing and Duck Duck Go for search. It's good enough for me.

Side note: that Pixel 4a takes great pictures, beats my iPhone 12 all the time.

I also have a NextDNS account that I've configured my iPhone to use as DNS, so it blocks a lot of tracking that apps do and some Apple does.

Do you have spam issues with Fastmail / how is it compared to gmail? I was actually thinking about switching to this provider. Currently using mailbox.org and it sucks for spam. Basically none of my "mark as spam" is taken into account in their stupid algorithm.

 

[Suburban Yahoo]

I have no spam problems with Fastmail, because I don't hand that out to just anyone, but only to people I know. I really don't know how it would work with a tsunami of spam hitting it. Being paid service, I can get customer support, forget that with a free service.

I have a garbage Yahoo account for businesses. Let's just say IT'S ALL SPAM there. We're talking a lot of accounts. But I did create a second Fastmail account with the idea of transitioning from Yahoo to Fastmail, and that would be a garbage account but I haven't done much with it, it's a lot of work.

 

[Blade Runner]

Are there any legit de-googled samsung phones or are they spied on by Samsung with all of their apps, as I've seen? I say this because I do like the galaxy phones.

 

[Suburban Yahoo]

I really don't follow the installing of alternate degoogled OS on phones much, so I don't know what it takes for Samsung. There is a utility called adb that the XDA developers describe somewhere how to "debloat" various phones, removing apps. But I've heard that if you deGoogle your Samsung phone, you still have to deSamsung as well which is dicey because they warn about boot loops because you removed some critical Samsung app.

I'd prefer to do tracker blocking.

For example, there is Blokada (blokada.org), an app you'd have to sideload (the one in the Play store is limited), and runs as a local VPN endpoint (but doesn't connect to a VPN server), and is somewhat configurable on what it blocks. I've used it before, but I use NextDNS now, which is at nextdns.io and offers a Samsung list to block Samsung tracking. It has an Apple one, a Windows one, some other but oddly enough, no Google one. But it's very configurable and offers a ton of lists which catch a lot of Google stuff, see below; this is just the top of my blocked list.

 

[Stadtaffe]

Under the European data protection laws, you can ask Google to remove stuff, the "right to be forgotten" :

Right to be Forgotten Overview - Legal Help

I. What is the Right to be Forgotten? The "right to be forgotten" is a common name for a right that was first established in May 2

support.google.com

I'm thinking of testing this, it's not a critical search result, but would probably prefer it not to be there. Has anyone tried this? Will see if it tries to force me to recreate a Google account..

 

[wayfaringstranger]

Don't delete it
hold onto it. just don't use it or associate it with any new device. that way it can't be hijacked against you.

 

[Parmesan]

Sooner or later our red pill kind, and conservatives in general, will be completely deplatformed, or your communications will be used against you in woke, legal witchhunts.

This will be a good opportunity for conservatives to up their tech savvy, as you will likely have to learn to deal with decentralized networks, crypto, and other non-corporatized applications and protocols. I suggest you all start getting familiar with Linux or other open source OS. There are non-Google/non-Apple alternatives to smart phones as well.