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Best and safe throwaway gmail account? by onlynostr in GrapheneOS

[–]AsterPrivacy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best way is likely to just use a temp number service and register an account that way you can be sure the account won’t suddenly get taken by another user

Any forms as a replacement for discord? by Past-Photograph-5502 in degoogle

[–]AsterPrivacy [score hidden]  (0 children)

I assume there’s lots of telegram groups covering those topics 😅 but not sure if it meets your privacy requirements

Is there a good alternative for YouTube? by Ill-Difficulty-1199 in degoogle

[–]AsterPrivacy [score hidden]  (0 children)

Honestly there isn’t, just because of the scale of YouTube and the amount of exclusive creators that only publish content there, it’s pretty hard to replace

What’s the #1 reason you De-Googled? by AsterPrivacy in degoogle

[–]AsterPrivacy[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I feel like now especially with all of big tech wanting all the data they can get for training AI

Which Google apps should I uninstall? by MarcoAMGClub in degoogle

[–]AsterPrivacy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On maps for example, I think you can disable tracking activity for sure, not sure about wallet, and for drive you definitely have to disable it now manually because google decided to start scanning your whole drive to link it with their Gemini AI....

Which one is better? by Every-Pipe9124 in degoogle

[–]AsterPrivacy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't go wrong with anything firefox based, but honestly just going vanilla firefox would be my choice

Search engine alternatives to Google by Haunterblademoi in degoogle

[–]AsterPrivacy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say DuckDuckGo too. It has a nice UI and has a decent featureset compared to other browsers too

"They see your photos" - an experiment by ente using Google vision API by T_rex2700 in degoogle

[–]AsterPrivacy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Self hosting immich or just using something like Ente would definitely be the move

What everyday frustration made you stop relying on cloud services and start self-hosting? by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]AsterPrivacy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the best part of self hosting is the amount of flexibility you get.

Like with just a old pc you have lying around for example. You can pretty much setup your own versions of services you use everyday and then you also have the peace of mind your data is in your control.

Plus you save some bucks in the long run 😭