@prousername here’s a good starting place: https://www.privacytools.io
Joke: The first app to get rid of is iOS.
(I’ve been making iPhone apps for a decade, let me rant!)
Go on……
Please rant away, this is a safe space.
not even a joke for me, i can’t imagine being without F-Droid!
welp 💀
I’d start small, a lot of people would tell you to do some drastic changes to you life, but, like every other thing you have in life, start small, or you’ll might fail.
I’d suggest starting here.
Other awesome FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) lists for your other OSes (computer/tablet).
I think you *should* think about moving to more friendly-FOSS OSes, but in time, down the line, not this instant. Maybe next devices you own, or when you feel ready, comfortable, with privacy; anyway, GL!
I daily drive Void Linux as i do consider Windows being spyware.
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One thing I don’t see any one mention in the comments, is that you should start paying attention to the “Data linked to you” section in the appstore. As an example here’s WhatsApp and Signal:
Granted that does mean you are relying on the developer and Apple to not be deceptive, but it’s better than nothing and a good place to start.
@prousername I wrote a blog article specifically for this! Perhaps you will find it helpful: https://controlaltdelete.technology/articles/easy-practical-privacy-tips-for-everyone.html
I see a lot of people in here shitting on iOS and not Google. Stock Android is worse than iOS for privacy. Unless you’re going to run a degoogled Android, don’t bother getting rid of iOS. But degoogled Android is the best option, if you can.
Stock iOS may be better for privacy than google on a OS level. But so many of the best Foss and open source app alternatives are android only. Like iOS can’t even run real Firefox. Much less things like newpipe.
Not really. On Android you can do much to achieve much more privacy. On iOS you can nearly do nothing. The options provided by Apple to restrict data usage are not doing their jobs according to privacy analysis by Kuketz thus resulting in a Apple marketing campaign based on lies that most believe and are convinced of
Depends, do you trust Apple with your privacy? And how about Amazon, do you trust them?
Well, all my home appliences rely on Alexa. I do trust amazon as i had no issues with it.
About apple, i did opt out from diagnostic data sharing, filled my icloud drive and disabled find my iphone. Tho to be honest, i had this iphone for 2 years now and havent found a reason to switch yet. (iPhone 12)
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How mich privacy do you want?
Much? Don’t use Apple. It is worse than Android. Google Android is bad as well but you can make substantial changes. Beste would be a custom ROM but that’s an extreme change and way
You don’t want to change iOS? You have to get rid of many Apple apps but I guess, it’s not possible.
So remaining: AppleTV, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, defenitely Discord!, WhatsApp, YouTube, Telegram, definitely HuawaiHealth.
Some of the others I don’t know but I’m sure they should be avoided as well. Use Websites with blockers in browser instead of apps.
That is the least to do or accept beging heavily tracked
I use Huawei Health to sync my Workout Data from my watch to my Phone. I don’t really know if i can get rid of it, as its the app my watch works with. (Huawei Watch GT 4)
Not an app, but one thing I can recommend that is pretty much “for free” is to turn on iCloud Advanced Data Protection, that gets you end-to-end encryption for pretty much all iCloud storage (photos and so on).
Everything else I would recommend is probably not going to happen (such as deleting Discord) or of questionable benefits (such as using the web version of Discord instead of what is probably the app) :^)
I recommend disabling iCloud
Stage one: get off the internet.
Stage two: ???
Stage three: Profit
Delete speedtest.net, YouTube, YouTube kids and ChatGPT and use either web apps or favorite them in your browser, as Firefox for iOS is really bad compared to other platforms I would recommend you to use brave instead as it comes included with an adblocker which works really well. Also do you need all of iOS’s bloat ? Do have an Apple Watch ? Do you have an Apple TV+ subscription ? Do you use HomeKit for smart home devices and so on.
