Disable play services, install fdroid, install aurora store from fdroid to keep your play store apps up to date switch to ProtonMail or Tutanota, install and use newpipe from fdroid
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These are great recommendations.
I would add mullvad VPN and biwarden password manager.
I use ProtonVPN and KeepassDX but those are both good suggestions
Get GrapheneOS back and do this. Win.
I would use Firefox Mobile over the Samsung browser. Samsung is still chromium based and Firefox puts more priority on user privacy.
If you can switch messaging and group chats to Signal or Telegram, that'd be a good move as well.
Otherwise App Tracking Protection is probably the best thing you can do for privacy.
Went to signal awhile ago, mainly because it's secure and cross platform.
Signal is bad for privacy. You need to enter your phone number and it has centralized server
I use Matrix. It requires only email and is decentralized
Firefox on Android supports ublock and noscript as well as other privacy extension. I cannot recommend it enough. Also use newpipe for YouTube. For any apps, see if you have an equivalent in f-droid and use it instead of the one from playstore.
Not sure if this makes it "private" but here is what I use:
- Firefox with extensions.
- Proton VPN, Calendar, Drive, Mail.
- Bitwarden password manager.
Exactly what I use. Lately I've been testing the Kiwi Next browser as well.
Check out calyxOS.
It's more user friendly than graphene. It does this by sacrificing some privacy and security but it's still pretty good.
Please have a look: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ and special https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/
The DDG tracking protection is unreal, I keep recommending it to people but I don't think they realise quite how much they're being tracked or they'd be jumping on it. It was insane for me to see hundreds of thousands of tracking requests denied each week. What's not to love, it's free, and stops tracking.
I've had a Pixel 7a for about a month now and loving it, alongside DuckDuckGo app tracking blocker. I was already using that on my tired ole' S9, would never have considered a google phone without that installed alongside.
How are you liking the 7a? I had a rough go with the 7 and now on an S23+. But with any Google phone, it feels like a gamble on what kind of experience you'll get.
With DuckDuckGo blocking the (egregious) tracking, and Nova launcher letting me properly customize the homescreen (there are two widgets that cannot be removed with stock launcher which was a big nuisance), it's a pretty slick handset especially for the cost. I'd have loved to have gone with an S23 but can't afford to spend that much on a phone unfortunately!
There is a good post on Lemmy about Hardening privacy on android https://lemmy.ml/post/54596
Is this a shit post, or the wrong link?
Everything from TheAnonymousJoker is a shitpost.