thorbot ,

Only iCloud. No siri. Only use for auto photo storage and music. I don’t care if they know my music listening habits. None of the rest.

platypus_plumba ,

Alternatives for WhatsApp and Google Search that won't sell your information?

joat_mon ,

Best alternative for WhatsApp would be Signal

CyberEgg ,

Signal an Duckduckgo or Startpage

photonic_sorcerer ,
@photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Signal and DuckDuckGo

stebo02 ,

Installing Signal is the easy part. Convincing your friends to do the same is the impossible part.

photonic_sorcerer ,
@photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I was surprised by how many of my friends were using both when I first installed it. Just try it out.

stebo02 ,

I already did and managed to get two friends to use it too but they only use it to talk to me

platypus_plumba ,

DuckDuckGo does sell your information, doesn't it? I thoughts that was their business model.

burninghedgehog ,

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    RandomLegend ,

    That's why you have to find services you pay for with your own money. So you know how they make money.

    I love kagi. I know exactly how they make their money... because i pay them.

    Tartas1995 ,

    Signal is like WhatsApp but you don't even need to share your phone number for it anymore. You can have an username and share that with people.

    thmnwlf ,

    ….iMessage
    MUHAHAHAHAHA

    Zerush ,
    @Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

    I don't know if such a long list fits into Lemmy.

    kaputter_Aimbot ,

    MetaGer is a metasearch engine focused on protecting users' privacy. Based in Germany, and hosted as a cooperation between the German NGO 'SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to Knowledge' and the University of Hannover, the system is built on 24 small-scale web crawlers under MetaGer's own control. In September 2013, MetaGer launched MetaGer.net, an English-language version of their search engine.

    Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaGer

    It currently supports the following languages/regions:

    Dansk (Danmark)

    Deutsch (Österreich/Schweiz/Deutschland)

    English (Great Britain/Ireland/Malaysia/USA)

    Español (España/México)

    Suomalainen (Suomi)

    Français (Canada/France)

    Italiano (Italia)

    Nederlands (Nederland)

    Polski (Polska)

    Svenska (Sverige)

    Source: https://metager.org/lang

    There is a TOR-hidden service too:

    https://metager.org/tor

    It is open source:

    https://gitlab.metager.de/open-source/MetaGer

    And has other useful features, for example:

    That you can hide yourself behind our proxyserver just by opening the result anonymously? Use "OPEN ANONYMOUSLY"; this also affects the following links.

    Source: https://metager.org/tips

    Alternatively I use some SearxNG-instances, preferably hosted in the EU:

    https://searx.space

    pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

    for WhatsApp : signal, telegram (for large news group chats) and jami

    for google: searX/searXNG (really customizable) startpage (uses google search) ecosia (eco friendly and uses bing) and finally brave search (best independent search engine)

    Zerush ,
    @Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

    Electric company: Hold my beer

    chemicalwonka ,
    @chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    I don't use any service of them

    I just use Google Pixel 8 but with other system.

    But Google is almost impossible to totally escape (their trackers and codes are in almost all sites in the web)

    apotheotic ,
    @apotheotic@beehaw.org avatar

    GrapheneOS supremacy

    AmerikaLosesWW3 ,

    Window$

    not_that_guy05 ,

    Yay I only have google and windows out of all of them.

    Weslee ,

    Google, windows, and WhatsApp for me.

    I've been slowly phasing out Google, and going to experiment with Linux on my old laptop, with the eventual goal of getting rid of windows on my pc

    CowsLookLikeMaps ,
    @CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Share your alternative stack ... 321GO!

    atmur , (edited )

    Google -> DuckDuckGo, sometimes fall back to Startpage if DDG has bad results

    Discord -> I use Discord, but incredibly rarely. Haven't bothered finding an alternative

    Windows -> Linux, obviously

    Whats App -> Signal

    iCloud -> Selfhosted storage + Proton Drive

    I don't want anything like TikTok, Instagram, or the rest of them, so I don't use those or their alternatives.

    Edit: arrows

    ZeroTwo ,

    Revolt is a great discord alternative. It's pretty much the same exact thing except open source and the nitro perks are free.

    danc4498 ,

    Greater than?

    atmur ,

    lol, maybe -> would've come across better

    definitely not greater than

    sillypuddy ,
    @sillypuddy@mander.xyz avatar

    I think he's using it as an arrow. Like "are you using X? ➡️ Use Y instead"

    AFallingAnvil ,
    @AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca avatar

    Your greater than symbols being the wrong way around made this far more confusing than it needed to be

    swab148 ,
    @swab148@startrek.website avatar

    I think they were just going for "arrows"

    riquisimo ,

    Yeah they need the dash.
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    Fluid ,
    @Fluid@aussie.zone avatar
    • Online discussion: Lemmy
    • Private messaging: Signal
    • Music: Direct purchase/download
    • OS: Any linux flavour
    • Mobile OS: Unfortunately needs a little more time...
    cyberpunk007 ,

    My exact choices. I want to love the open source phone options but... Corporations have embraced android and iPhone. I worry about road blocks with things like duo and apps that don't permit install on rooted things etc.

    Zenchyi ,

    Android is fine, just not the default versions. Using lineage or graphene os is barely a difference from stock os, but significantly more private.

    PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S ,
    @PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    Reddit --> Lemmy

    Facebook --> fucking nothing lmao

    YouTube --> FreeTube + Invidious [1]

    Windows --> Debian [2] with KDE Plasma

    Word --> LyX

    Microsoft Office --> LibreOffice

    Built-in phone music player --> Odyssey [3]

    Firefox --> LibreWolf [4]

    Adobe Reader --> Okular + Librera on Android

    Default phone launcher --> KISS Launcher

    [1] I prefer FreeTube on computers where I have it installed, but one of my family's jank 10-year-old work PCs can't handle it, so I'll typically watch videos in Invidious in LibreWolf on that computer.

    [2] I can't recommend Debian for absolutely everyone since it prioritizes stability and predictability over new features and ease of use, but it's great for most of my use cases. I typically recommend Linux Mint for complete beginners.

    [3] It handles extremely large music libraries (>100 GB of .mp3 files) without constantly taking forever to reload when I add a single new album.

    [4] Firefox is pretty good and FOSS, but LibreWolf comes with better defaults and I'm a lazy fucker.

    pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

    VLC for FLACs

    evanstucker ,

    https://prism-break.org/

    https://privacyguides.org/

    Arch Linux instead of Windows or MacOS

    GrapheneOS instead of stock Android or IOS

    Mastodon instead of Twitter/X

    Matrix instead of Slack

    Lemmy instead of Reddit

    Signal instead of phone, texting, and video chat

    Jitsi instead of Zoom

    Nextcloud instead of Google Contacts, Calendar, and Drive

    Protonmail with custom domain instead of Gmail

    Jellyfin instead of Spotify, but I still use Spotify... :(

    Pixelfed instead of Instagram, but its still lacking content and useable mobile apps.

    Haven't escaped YouTube yet, but meaning to browse Peertube more.

    I've been a Linux-only gamer for years too, thanks to Proton, Vulcan, Lutris, etc. Still waiting for good VR though.

    FOSS or GTFO!

    PoolloverNathan ,

    OS: NixOS 24.05 (gen 67, non-flake)
    WM, DE: KDE Plasma
    Mass massaging: Aliucord mobile, Vencord (installed from nixpkgs patch) desktop
    P2P messaging: Netcat
    Don't really watch many videos / listen to music
    Editor: Sandboxed VSCodium
    Base flake for development environments: stddev
    Programming language: Haskell + Rust + Go (one project)
    Browser: Sandboxed Firefox
    Phone launcher: Niagara

    PseudorandomNoise ,
    @PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world avatar

    Windows aint free, which just makes it that much worse!

    Lileath ,
    @Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    In the minds of most people it is, because for them it's just factored in the cost of their Computer.

    TheBat ,
    @TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

    Windows aint free

    Not with that attitude

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