The First Steps to De-google Yourself
mosbat
Posted on April 25, 2022
Fed up of Google? More and more people are beginning to recognize the evil Google is hiding and investors have begun putting money to create similar services *minus * the awful practices Google have been doing to it's users such as using/sharing data forcefully on it's users along with suppressing freedom of speech.
However, to get rid of Google, you need to make sure the following items are checked:
1- Are you logging in to any sites or services using Google's authentication? If yes, your first step would be check which apps are connected to Google or use Google for login. Steps on how to see the list of apps here.
Once you have identified which sites you login using Google, go to each site, use forgot password step in order to force those sites to give you a password. At this point, after that, you're able to login without using Google's authentication though you need to change the email address to more secure and reputable email providers such as ProtonMail.com.
2- Prepare an auto reply to all incoming messages to anyone contacting you over your Gmail asking them to instead email you over to your new email address.
3- Make sure you're not subscribed anymore to any Google Services such as Google Music, YouTube premium, etc...
4- Make sure to export any sheets/documents/stuff you have either on Google's services or Google Drive to somewhere else.
5- Prepare a list of bookmarks for your favorite YouTube videos that do not require login to view; since you will lose your playlists on YouTube once you do.
Finally, it's time to consider the following alternatives to Android's OS:
https://itsfoss.com/open-source-alternatives-android/
If you made it this far, congratulations, you have De-googled yourself and no longer under the mercy of big brother tech Google.
Posted on April 25, 2022
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