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  • ori@lemmy.blahaj.zoneO [email protected]

    (I reposted this bc some applications were missing.) I had to install some apps because of school. Btw, can you say improvements that I can make? I can't install anything that isn't from playstore.
    Edit: Duolingo is now just a PWA

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    Same pain! Whatsapp! Unreplacable ๐Ÿ˜ข

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    • ori@lemmy.blahaj.zoneO [email protected]

      (I reposted this bc some applications were missing.) I had to install some apps because of school. Btw, can you say improvements that I can make? I can't install anything that isn't from playstore.
      Edit: Duolingo is now just a PWA

      november@piefed.blahaj.zoneN This user is from outside of this forum
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      Firefox or Waterfox instead of Brave. Vivaldi's a good compromise if it has to be Chromium.

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      • ori@lemmy.blahaj.zoneO [email protected]

        (I reposted this bc some applications were missing.) I had to install some apps because of school. Btw, can you say improvements that I can make? I can't install anything that isn't from playstore.
        Edit: Duolingo is now just a PWA

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        I would see if youโ€™re able to actually uninstall or disable the Google apps. Theyโ€™re likely to still grab info otherwise

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        • ori@lemmy.blahaj.zoneO [email protected]

          (I reposted this bc some applications were missing.) I had to install some apps because of school. Btw, can you say improvements that I can make? I can't install anything that isn't from playstore.
          Edit: Duolingo is now just a PWA

          nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.devN This user is from outside of this forum
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          Netflix made the cut?

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          • november@piefed.blahaj.zoneN [email protected]

            Firefox or Waterfox instead of Brave. Vivaldi's a good compromise if it has to be Chromium.

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            I know that brave isn't good, can you just explain why?

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            • nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.devN [email protected]

              Netflix made the cut?

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              ๐Ÿ˜ž๐Ÿ‘ (sadly yes)

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                I would see if youโ€™re able to actually uninstall or disable the Google apps. Theyโ€™re likely to still grab info otherwise

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                I have already disabled Google Photos, but it still manages to save my photos, and I can't revoke its permission to do so. (C'mon xiaomi, I just don't want to have all my data in the google servers)

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                • ori@lemmy.blahaj.zoneO [email protected]

                  (I reposted this bc some applications were missing.) I had to install some apps because of school. Btw, can you say improvements that I can make? I can't install anything that isn't from playstore.
                  Edit: Duolingo is now just a PWA

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                  co maps over organic maps

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                  • ori@lemmy.blahaj.zoneO [email protected]

                    I know that brave isn't good, can you just explain why?

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                    This article explains it pretty good

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                    • ori@lemmy.blahaj.zoneO [email protected]

                      ๐Ÿ˜ž๐Ÿ‘ (sadly yes)

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                      Gotta sail the high seas, bud ๐Ÿ˜‰ FMHY and you'll be set.

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                      • ori@lemmy.blahaj.zoneO [email protected]

                        (I reposted this bc some applications were missing.) I had to install some apps because of school. Btw, can you say improvements that I can make? I can't install anything that isn't from playstore.
                        Edit: Duolingo is now just a PWA

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                        Nice, Jami. Have you been able to find anybody else who uses it?

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                        • ori@lemmy.blahaj.zoneO [email protected]

                          (I reposted this bc some applications were missing.) I had to install some apps because of school. Btw, can you say improvements that I can make? I can't install anything that isn't from playstore.
                          Edit: Duolingo is now just a PWA

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                          Remove Netflix, proprietary software.

                          https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy

                          I can't install anything that isn't from playstore.

                          Why?

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                          • ori@lemmy.blahaj.zoneO [email protected]

                            (I reposted this bc some applications were missing.) I had to install some apps because of school. Btw, can you say improvements that I can make? I can't install anything that isn't from playstore.
                            Edit: Duolingo is now just a PWA

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                            Not really imo,
                            however doing good taking small steps OP! ๐Ÿ™‚

                            Suggestions I'd make:

                            • Aim to use nothing/as little as possible from the Play Store (proprietary, often filled with trackers)
                            • Aim to use everything/as much as possible from F-Droid (open source, no or nearly no trackers)
                            • Switch GApps for MicroG (The open source implementation of the Google system apps to make things like notifications work, which removes spyware)
                            • Switch your Xiaomi OS (also spyware filled) for a more privacy friendly OS like LineageOS

                            I'd suggest LineageOS4MicroG:
                            https://lineage.microg.org/

                            It's vanilla LineageOS,
                            with MicroG + F-Droid pre-included.

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                            • november@piefed.blahaj.zoneN [email protected]

                              Firefox or Waterfox instead of Brave. Vivaldi's a good compromise if it has to be Chromium.

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                              Don't use Firefox, the original one anymore if you're really into privacy. I haven't tried Waterfox, but I can recommend Ironfox. It's on Acrescent and Fdroid.

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                                Nice, Jami. Have you been able to find anybody else who uses it?

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                                I've tried to use it but it's way too flaky. ๐Ÿ˜ž

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                                • rikj000@discuss.tchncs.deR [email protected]

                                  Not really imo,
                                  however doing good taking small steps OP! ๐Ÿ™‚

                                  Suggestions I'd make:

                                  • Aim to use nothing/as little as possible from the Play Store (proprietary, often filled with trackers)
                                  • Aim to use everything/as much as possible from F-Droid (open source, no or nearly no trackers)
                                  • Switch GApps for MicroG (The open source implementation of the Google system apps to make things like notifications work, which removes spyware)
                                  • Switch your Xiaomi OS (also spyware filled) for a more privacy friendly OS like LineageOS

                                  I'd suggest LineageOS4MicroG:
                                  https://lineage.microg.org/

                                  It's vanilla LineageOS,
                                  with MicroG + F-Droid pre-included.

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                                  I went to almost every website that offers ROMs and couldn't find any official ROMs for my device (/e/? Doesn't work. Lineage? Nope. Graphene? Only works for pixels). I can't install apks outside playstore (So, no aurora store and no f-droid. Newpipe was an exception) Thanks btw

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                                    Remove Netflix, proprietary software.

                                    https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy

                                    I can't install anything that isn't from playstore.

                                    Why?

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                                    Parental controls, newpipe was an exception

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                                    • O [email protected]

                                      Nice, Jami. Have you been able to find anybody else who uses it?

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                                      I have only converted one friend and he only agreed because I mentioned the chat control. Everyone else went โ€œOMGโ€ and moved on with their lives. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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                                      • november@piefed.blahaj.zoneN [email protected]

                                        Firefox or Waterfox instead of Brave. Vivaldi's a good compromise if it has to be Chromium.

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                                        How about Librefox?

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                                        • ori@lemmy.blahaj.zoneO [email protected]

                                          (I reposted this bc some applications were missing.) I had to install some apps because of school. Btw, can you say improvements that I can make? I can't install anything that isn't from playstore.
                                          Edit: Duolingo is now just a PWA

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                                          I would recommend moving off of Duolingo if you can. What you move to depends on the language you're learning. They fired a bunch of their language developers and went hard on AI.

                                          I help run a community for Welsh learners and we're finding more and more people coming in with questions about a Duolingo lesson where things are wrong and weird. Plus their business practices aren't great. They realized that they make money from you staying on the app, not learning a language, so your progress is artificial stunted. Plus the complete lack of grammar explanation at all we're finding hurts people more than helps

                                          As a general recommendation, textbooks are so much better.

                                          I also see Gmail. I don't have a recommendation for a replacement as I'm doing my research on it now, but getting away from Google is a good idea

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