Android

I think if you attempt to degoogle all at once, you will fail. Slowly migrate your essential things and look for e2ee, privacy respecting, FOSS and sustainable alternatives. Unfortunately I can't quite rid of the play store, but I've migrated mostly privacy friendly services. I'm still stuck with my friends being on discord, Spotify, and Google Maps for finding essential data (sorry open maps lacks too much info for where I am).

Tutanota controls my email, calendar, and contact syncing. I'm using ente for my cloud photo storage. I use Bitwarden for my password manager, pass key manager, and totp 2fa codes. All those services I listed are entirely FOSS and e2ee. For my browser, I use Fennec (Firefox fork) from f-droid. I use Droid-ify in place of the terrible official f-droid client. I try to use f-droid alternatives as much as I can.

My entertainment is my Feeder RSS feed, Boost for Lemmy, Moshidon (Mastodon fork), Twire as a twitch client, Newpipe for YouTube, and then Genshin Impact lol.

If you need to remain on stock android for various reasons then I highly recommend de bloating your system yourself with the Universal Android Debloater tool. Super easy to use, but also super powerful, so be careful.

https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater

My own build of GrapheneOS with MicroG that allows Android Auto.

I'm not fully degoogled (I still use Maps and Tasks), but I'm closer...

It is important to note that grapheneos has a web version that you just go down the line following the instructions and it will take care of the heavy lifting part of unlocking the bootloader and install. It is probably about as easy as they could make the process. As long as you have the ability to read carefully not do anything stupid when instructed not to, you too could have a privacy focused phone.

You also don't have to give up the google store if you don't want to. You can have it reinstalled. What is the difference you may be thinking? Doing it this way sandboxes the store apps preventing them from doing anything you don't want to while getting the advantages of the play store.

All google knows is that you have the app, not what you do with it unless the app you install goes out of its way to manually report without google services. However, you probably don't want to use those kinds of apps anyway.

All I am saying is that the transition to better privacy doesn't have to be bad or immediately. You can take your time.

Mine is still googled (Moto G Stylus 5g 2023), but I noticed that the Google apps couldn't be uninstalled and some couldn't be disabled. So instead of trying to pick and choose, I uninstalled everything I could that came on the phone (mostly bloat crap), and disabled everything I could disable but couldn't uninstall, pretty much. I haven't yet looked into rooting this phone. I confess to still using some of the stock apps out of laziness, but want to migrate from those to the extent possible. Except I don't know of navigation apps as good as google maps. Organic maps is ok so I use it when I can, but I fall back on google maps some of the time. The rest of the google stuff doesn't seem important. I haven't used chrome at all, for example.

I figure I have some de-google cred for using Maemo phones for several years, though they are no longer usable due to the 2g/3g mobile networks shutting down.

As a non pixel user I'm locked out of options like Graphene, but /e/ has been a great daily driver for me for over 2 to 3 years.

Since now I'm on a decent powerful phone, I can leverage android's work profile (via Insular app) to keep a few annoying apps happy with MicroG. The main portion of my phone has it disabled and you can really tell the drain play services (even if used indirectly via microG) has on battery life.

I have been using calyxos since the pixel 4a was kinda new. Not sure how i learned about it, i don't know much about degoogling, but i really like it. I sometimes use google maps with it though, for car navigation and local business search in cities i don't know well. Mostly using f-droid for apps but i have a few installed from google via the aurora store.

On my old nexus 7 tablet i have lineage installed but i hardly use it because of the weak battery.

I run ClaysOS and GrapheneOS (current on graphene OS).

I've rooted all my phones since the 1st in '12 (Samsung S2) and I've been running Cyanogenmpd/Lineage since the 2nd. (Thag was the 1st of my own, the S2 was a company phone)

Now I'm running Lineage on all used devices (messing about with a Samsung A13 to get rid of all bloatware beforenit gets used). I'm not 100% degoogled, but I got rid of most junk. I still have some apps which Inpaid for, but I'm replacing them one by one. When that's done, I'l degoogle the devices.

im already using archlinux arm on my phone for some years. there is really nothing i need to degoogle at now. the only google product im using is gmail (3rd part client) and play games (run in waydroid).

The most annoying part was shitty web apps. In rest I didn't had problems