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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Better yet, delete your Meta and Twitter accounts

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I can't delete Whatsapp any time soon, for a long time I tried to convince my friends to use signal, but I just can't get them to switch. Also basically any handyman, plumber, painter, etc I know uses Whatsapp.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Check and check!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Done yesterday! The remaining bit is using WhatsApp with family and moving them all to something else...

Getting out of the Google and Amazon spheres is proving trickier but already changed my Pixel's OS and transferred my cloud to a tag digital next cloud account.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Lucky you, my bank still needs Google PlayStore for updates... Aurora and F-Droid is not possible as of right now. Maybe I should switch to cardTAN to avoid the app on the phone completely

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

why wouldn't aurora work? it's a play store reimplementation, i've never heard of being unable to update apps via it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What OS did you move your Pixel to?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Graphene. /e/OS is European, but unfortunately its security implementations are dangerously outdated. It still doesn't enable re-locking your bootloader.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago