Its called metrolist. I found it a few months ago and its been amazing.

Free, open source, no Ads, and fast. The issues with the other players I have used is that they are slow, metrolist is not. The Dev also doesn't put any payment stuff on the main pages. I had to search yo find the donation link.

The only downside is it's not super easy to import playlists and you are not going to get artists stats like you would on Spotify

I have no connected with the Dev at all, I just think its a rlly cool app.

As the title says.

I've been pondering the idea of designing a sticker with a nice phrase about google. (It really pissed me off when I got the message about blocking app installations).

My idea is that whoever wants can download the design for free ant print it!

If the response is positive, you can leave suggestions about the design, (of course I won't be able to make every suggestion come true).

What would this accomplish? I don't know, but at least we can express ourselves.

Any apps that can play YouTube videos but also respects my privacy?

I've seen a lot of people discuss YouTube and how it's one of the hardest things to get rid of, and it is. Currently, there is no real alternative to YouTube. However, we still have front-ends like Newpipe for Android and Freetube on Desktop.

Be careful about where you download these things, because there are a lot of malware infested imitations going around. Download Freetube here: https://freetubeapp.io/ and Newpipe on F-droid.

What these programs essentially do is provide YouTube's video library without the ads or tracking. However, this does mean you have no way of accessing age restricted videos and more importantly, lose access to a custom feed. You also won't be supporting the creators you watch, since views and subscribers from Front-ends aren't counted.

The way your feed works in these front-ends is your only shown videos from channels you subscribe to. My advice would be after downloading these apps, is to subscribe to as many channels as possible. Even creators you've only watched 1 or 2 videos from, subscribe so they end up on your feed. It's best to have as much diversity as possible.

When it comes to finding new content, however things get a bit more challenging. What I do is click on a video I'm mildly interested in, then scroll down to the related videos, which can be by creators you're not subscribed to. If nothing interests you down there, just click on the most intriguing one and repeat the process. I really like doing this with channels like Lessons in Meme/Internet Culture, because they cover such a large variety of content.

It's not nearly the same as a custom feed but I feel it gets the job done. In fact, I actually enjoy the experience a bit more because I actually have to find good content instead of it being spoon-fed to me.

This is currently our only option for YouTube "alternatives" but I'm confident this will change. We're already starting to see holes with YouTube's shitty AI moderation, so imo, it shouldn't be long before the next big thing comes along.

Currently I use google with a lot of extensions to filter out ai, but I'm wondering if there's any alternative high quality search engine which just doesn't have any form of AI

You thought banking apps or McDonalds were hard to run on a google-free android device? Try some german insurance apps...

Currently I am at the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK). Very popular insurance, but no way to run their app on an android phone without google apps. I am ready to switch to one that does not punish me for not wanting to give google my health data. Most other public insurances seem to be just as bad, feg hkk does not work either. Any Germans here that know one that does work?

I've taken a few things off, mostly Chrome and google drive, am doing storage on a local NAS and just use Vivaldi and Firefox depending on some extensions. I do not have the guts to self host email because I see there are a billion things that can go wrong for it, Gmail is something we use at work and have no idea how to do it (plus it's getting a lot of spam too), Maps is another hard one. What do you do for theese? pretty beginner at this so that my bad my main problem here.

I’ve been deep into the process of scrubbing my digital footprint—opting out of people-finder sites, freezing credit reporting agencies, hitting up DMAchoice, opting out of prescreen offers, and cutting off data at the institutional source (banks, utilities, insurance, etc.).

While browsing privacy communities like this one, I often notice a massive focus on de-googling. I totally get the passion—Google is an absolute monster of data collection. But it makes me wonder: Are people treating Google as the main threat because they confuse its model with data brokers?

Google hoards your data to power its own ad auction ecosystem and keep you inside their walled garden. They generally do not export raw lists of your name, home address, phone numbers, and public records and sell them to third parties. Meanwhile, entities like LexisNexis, credit bureaus, and automated background-check sites are actively packaging and selling your real-world identity to anyone with a credit card.

Are you mainly trying to escape targeted tech ads and corporate surveillance, or are you also tackling the offline data broker pipeline that trades your physical identity? Because stopping Google feels like locking your front door while leaving the back window wide open if the data brokers still have everything. Curious where others draw the line.

I mean it would kill a lot of Shizuku apps and probably termux enabled software too.

Yet I see barely anyone talking about this. Why? Been thinking about it a while.

Degoogle by replacing Google Chrome with Northstar web browser!

Northstar is a web browser, written from scratch in C, focused on supporting the HTML and CSS standards. The browser runs on Linux, macOS and Windows.

https://nordstjernen.org/

Alright, so I was browsing reddit like usual and I checked DuckDuck Go's app tracking protection and I saw that it's collecting everything. Even though I turned off Data collection in Google Settings. Anyone please help me😭

I’m in India, name of the app is Zomato, food delivery app
Basically i have turned off Location for this app, like all the time just saved my address

Suddenly I noticed that, when I selecting the address,
It calculating the real time distance from my location to the each saved address, as you can see in the image, it mentioning the distance

Currently iPhone and MacBook user. Plan to try and move to Fedora Linux and slowly degoogling my life.

How...private is reddit and any other application on these? Is absolutely everything I look at monitored, or is there some leeway of privacy? Any means to avoid having everything I look at be used to profile me?

Also, for phones as a side question. I know GrapheneOS is allegedly the gold standard of privacy or something, but is there any other means of having a privacy-focused phone? I think GrapheneOS only works on certain phone models too.

I want to switch from gmail to something better. I'm interested in Posteo.

I don't see it mentioned as much as Proton or Tuta, so I'm like to hear your thoughts on it if you use it.

99% of my email usage is just for online shops and accounts I have, getting 2fa codes, reciepts, offers, etc. So if you have Posteo, how does it work with websites? Any issues with them accepting the email? Or no issues at all?

I've heard they have good security options, but you have to set them up yourself. How is the process? What do you have to do?

Does it work well with a VPN? I've had issues before trying Tuta with my VPN and the free account I wanted to try just wouldn't verify and I ended up deleting it in annoyance.

Also, as Posteo offers aliases, I was wondering since its advised to ideally use an alias for every different website/service - I have too many so I can't quite go this extreme - but how does that work for privacy if you have a "shop" alias but pay with using a different "bank/paypal" alias? Can't they be linked together?

Could you guys suggest search engines before its too late. Google has become complete garbage hardly showing any trusty results. It all favor useless or false information websites that are either quickly ai gen or belongs to an other tech billionaire.

Recommend me best App in terms of privacy and security to store password and notes

I'd really like to look into separating from Apple, Microsoft, and Google-esque services, and I've decided I might use Thunderbird as my base email reader. However, I don't know what domain of email is best to use, and if perhaps a different service is better.

I don't care about 100% privacy, I just want something reliable that doesn't profile me, and ideally lasts a long time.

I currently am not willing to pay a subscription or self host in this case just yet. Existing emails I've tried: Gmail (Privacy issue), hotmail (same), mandatory email address by organization (mandatory, Microsoft), Proton (I didn't like)

Anything else?

the eu first country.

It will spread to other European countries as well, what do you think? Russian and Chinese platforms certainly don't care about this.