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0 pointsyellowapple5y ago0 comments

Firefox and DuckDuckGo are my daily drivers, and have been since around the time the Edward Snowden leaks dropped. At one point I was also running a degoogled Android (specifically CopperheadOS), though I've since reverted to using GApps on my current phone for pragmatic reasons.

Really, the only Google service I routinely use directly (i.e. other than because some Android app I use requires Google Play Services to function) is Google Maps.

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Fnoord5y ago

The irony is that CopperheadOS officially only runs on... Google Pixel devices. Yes, Google Pixel devices.

If you use something like microG, all it is is a FOSS implementation of Google Play Services. You're still using Google.

I'd like to see Nextcloud become a drop-in replacement for Google Play Services. They already got Contacts, Photo and Storage support; just needs things such as a distributed Play Store and a Search Engine (SearX?).

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0 pointsyellowapple5y ago0 comments

Really, the only Google service I routinely use directly (i.e. other than because some Android app I use requires Google Play Services to function) is Google Maps.

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Fnoord5y ago

The irony is that CopperheadOS officially only runs on... Google Pixel devices. Yes, Google Pixel devices.

If you use something like microG, all it is is a FOSS implementation of Google Play Services. You're still using Google.

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