DeGoogle Yourself

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google is not and never was your friend, it is a dictator tool: Degoogle (i.redd.it)

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[–] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world -5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

OsmAnd is a nightmare in terms of user experience! I dropped it 8 years ago because it was a horror. I gave it a try again last month because, you know, maybe people have done something about the useless navigation, the totally overpacked UI, the sluggish behaviour etc. Guess what? It's the same terrible (!) app it was 8 years ago!

FCK Google, but if that's all that there is as an alternative, well...

I use Magic Earth. It's not Open Source afaik but they claim they dont collect data (...🤔). I don't believe this so use these apps as little as possible.

Greetings, an open source enthousiast

[–] helloyanis@jlai.lu 1 points 1 hour ago

Well, thanks for sharing the app, the most alternatives, the better!

[–] IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Agree with you, OsmAnd is practically unusable for me due to the ancient UI. I hated it every time I used it.

I found Organic Maps to be a decent modern alternative. It's open source and uses data from openstreetmaps as well, but it's a million times less cluttered.