I would stop using Android but theres kinda no other solution. Apple? Hell no. Linux phone? Underdeveloped though intriguing. My best solution is to find a modable phone and install Graphene OS which is based off the Android Open Source Project and not Googles version of Android. Keeps Android de-googled, open source, and aimed at protecting you from google.

For other google services: DuckDuckGo instead of Google.com Protonmail instead of Gmail HEREWeGo instead of Maps NewPipe instead of the Youtube App Setup a Nextcloud Server instead of using Drive Aurora Store and FDroid instead of the Play Store Signal instead of any other messaging app Firefox instead of Chrome

Harden your device with things like general strict settings on privacy and security and keeping vpns up (good ones like NordVPN) as often as possible. A good one to have on mobile is NetGuard where you can block certain apps from accessing the internet at all so even if they wanted to send data they couldnt.

And then just replace the basic phone apps with open source variants. Things like calendar and calculator. Tibor Kaputa has a good open source suite of simple and open source tools on FDroid.

De-Googling is hard for sure but a lot more possible than people think.

Oh also get rid of social media like Twitter and Facebook... you dont need it. A lot of people are saying with Twitter to move to Parler which I love to see people move off Twitter but Id also love to see people not use any form of it at all.

I would stop using Android but theres kinda no other solution. Apple? Hell no. Linux phone? Underdeveloped though intriguing. My best solution is to find a modable phone and install Graphene OS which is based off the Android Open Source Project and not Googles version of Android. Keeps Android de-googled, open source, and aimed at protecting you from google.

For other google services: DuckDuckGo instead of Google.com Protonmail instead of Gmail HEREWeGo instead of Maps NewPipe instead of the Youtube App Setup a Nextcloud Server instead of using Drive Aurora Store and FDroid instead of the Play Store Signal instead of any other messaging app Firefox instead of Chrome

Harden your device with things like general strict settings on privacy and security and keeping vpns up (good ones like NordVPN) as often as possible. A good one to have on mobile is NetGuard where you can block certain apps from accessing the internet at all so even if they wanted to send data they couldnt.

And then just replace the basic phone apps with open source variants. Things like calendar and calculator. Tibor Kaputa has a good open source suite of simple and open source tools on FDroid.

De-Googling is hard for sure but a lot more possible than people think.

Oh also get rid of social media like twitter and Facebook... you dont need it.

I would stop using Android but theres kinda no other solution. Apple? Hell no. Linux phone? Underdeveloped though intriguing. My best solution is to find a modable phone and install Graphene OS which is based off the Android Open Source Project and not Googles version of Android. Keeps Android de-googled, open source, and aimed at protecting you from google.

For other google services: DuckDuckGo instead of Google.com Protonmail instead of Gmail HEREWeGo instead of Maps NewPipe instead of the Youtube App Setup a Nextcloud Server instead of using Drive Aurora Store and FDroid instead of the Play Store Signal instead of any other messaging app Firefox instead of Chrome

Harden your device with things like general strict settings on privacy and security and keeping vpns up (good ones like NordVPN) as often as possible. A good one to have on mobile is NetGuard where you can block certain apps from accessing the internet at all so even if they wanted to send data they couldnt.

And then just replace the basic phone apps with open source variants. Things like calendar and calculator. Tibor Kaputa has a good open source suite of simple and open source tools on FDroid.

De-Googling is hard for sure but a lot more possible than people think.

I would stop using Android but theres kinda no other solution. Apple? Hell no. Linux phone? Underdeveloped though intriguing. My best solution is to find a modable phone and install Graphene OS which is based off the Android Open Source Project and not Googles version of Android. Keeps Android de-googled, open source, and aimed at protecting you from google.