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It's not very hard if you know what you are doing. - Phone with Lineage OS without Google Apps - Install apps with Apkpure since you don't have Google Play - S
by some_account 8y ago
It's not very hard if you know what you are doing.
- Phone with Lineage OS without Google Apps
- Install apps with Apkpure since you don't have Google Play
- Startpage as search engine
- Disable accepting third party cookies
Done. No Google in your life anymore.
- xg15 8y ago... until you send the next email to an @gmail.com address. Or open a page with AdWord ads on it. Or Google Analytics. Or Google-hosted JS libraries. Or Google-hosted fonts. Or an AMP page. Or...
- ourmandave 8y ago^This. Is it really worth the effort if you have to conduct your online life like a spy in a foreign land? Where any mis-config or 'you missed a step' could expose you.
- some_account 8y agoYour logic is basically "unless you can avoid Google seeing any trace of you online, just let them see every single thing you do".
- some_account 8y agoThere is a world of difference between using Google applications running on your phone and using their search engine compared to some of my email ending up in their servers. Any ad blocker blocks their scripts, that's why its in my list below. But if you don't see the difference, I can't explain it any better than I just did.
- RaleyField 8y ago> @gmail.com address Doesn't need to be, tons of people use G Suite. you'd have to be checking MX records.
- scarface74 8y agoYeah that’s not hard at all.... Or you could not buy a phone with an OS supported by an ad targeting company. I would no more want my phone built by Google than Facebook.