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De-Googling

De-Googling is the process of finding alternatives to Google products and services, and related activities intended to improve your privacy on the Internet.

Is Fahrenheit 451 becoming relevant again? (Apr 2026)

Trying to live without a smartphone in 2026 (Apr 2026)

Why I de-Googled (Apr 2026)

Mandatory car, mandatory smartphone (Mar 2026)

Just call me Cassandra (Mar 2026)

Digital voice assistants vs. privacy in 2026 (Feb 2026)

Battle of the privacy-focused search engines: Kagi vs. DuckDuckGo (Feb 2026)

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting (Jan 2026)

Google Pixel and Sony Xperia handsets for budget de-Googling (Dec 2025)

Custom ROM versus extensive package removal, for de-Googling a Samsung cellphone (Nov 2025)

Two years without Google, et al. -- has it been worth it? (Nov 2025)

The 2nd-generation Nokia 105: a smarter dumb phone (Nov 2025)

De-bloating and de-Googling an Android device using Canta (Nov 2025)

No more Lineage OS on Samsung cellphones (Nov 2025)

FastMail – still good value in 2025? (Jul 2025)

Using a Garmin fitness watch completely offline -- no accounts, no app (Jan 2025)

Some notes on installing Lineage OS on modern-ish Samsung Android devices (Aug 2024)

What you give up, when you opt out of the surveillance economy (Aug 2023)

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Converted from my Gemini capsule.