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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • bazingabot@lemmy.worldtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Google tracks your app usage and so much moreEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use a couple of counter measures and I am quite happy since years and hope to be as invisible as possible for tracking companies. I have a samsung phone, this is what I did:

    • on your pc install adb
    • when switching on the phone for the first time, dont connect to wifi, dont make or use a google account, press skip and all the fake “warnings” until you see your launcher
    • download a browser apk of your liking and install it via browser
    • activate developer mode for apk (you find the instructions online)
    • via command line remove all samsung bloatware
    • uninstall all google apps except the absolute must haves like “google play service” and so on
    • go into settings - apps in your phone and deactivate all remaining google apps that you dont dare to delete via adb
    • install an alternate app store via your newly installed browser
    • install wireguard and setup connection to your vpn at home
    • on my homeserver install pihole or adguard home to block google out completely
    • set a different search engine like qwant or so in your browser
    • install all the security add ins in your browser to your liking

    As a result, I am almost google free, except probably for samsungs trackers. Sometimes apps or commerce websites dont work as they use google captcha or things like that.