Forced to use my phone during a windows update which breaks my computer. My phone is shitty and slow. Google is full of unhelpful results. Youtube is showing nothing but political ads about ms-13 killing white people.

Truly 2024 is great.

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[–] newfie@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Do you have any recommendations on how to effectively do this now that you've gone through it?

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

there are many guides out there that are going to be a lot more organized than asking a random user.

https://tycrek.github.io/degoogle/

https://redlib.pussthecat.org/r/degoogle/wiki/index

etc.

It really depends on your usage (which products, for what, how much, etc) and your tolerance for spending time vs money vs inconvenience.

[–] btfod@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks comrade

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

rat-salute

[–] btfod@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

I endorse what Chronicon posted, those guides are good. YMMV but for me the turning point was switching to grapheneOS on mobile. I've still yet to completely detach from Google but I'm enjoying the process.