You can avoid Google pretty successfully. There are de-googled android or Linux phones out there (or Apple), other search engines, browsers that aren’t chrome based like Firefox, a million LLM companies to choose from, service providers depending on the area etc. and you can avoid most of the ads and trackers with a couple of browser extensions.
The one you basically can’t avoid no matter what you do is Amazon because basically everything runs on AWS.
Amazon’s cloud infrastructure is often overlooked but it’s responsible for handling most of the traffic on the internet that’s not from China and even there they have subsidiaries that conform with regulations.
I switched back to Android from iOS after many years and without doing too much research, chose a Galaxy S25. I’ve been very sad about not being able to install a degoogled ROM on it :(. I specifically avoided Pixels because of my disdain for Google but apparently they’re the only ones you can really get if you want non stock ROMs
Yeah, the older Samsung phones supported custom ROMs which is why I went with the S25. Unfortunately it seems like they all have locked bootloaders now though
You can avoid Google pretty successfully. There are de-googled android or Linux phones out there (or Apple), other search engines, browsers that aren’t chrome based like Firefox, a million LLM companies to choose from, service providers depending on the area etc. and you can avoid most of the ads and trackers with a couple of browser extensions.
The one you basically can’t avoid no matter what you do is Amazon because basically everything runs on AWS.
Amazon’s cloud infrastructure is often overlooked but it’s responsible for handling most of the traffic on the internet that’s not from China and even there they have subsidiaries that conform with regulations.
Indeed, still quite possible to bypass most of google. Cloudflare is also one that’s really entrenched and harder to do without.
I switched back to Android from iOS after many years and without doing too much research, chose a Galaxy S25. I’ve been very sad about not being able to install a degoogled ROM on it :(. I specifically avoided Pixels because of my disdain for Google but apparently they’re the only ones you can really get if you want non stock ROMs
currently on a hand down samsung phone running lineageos, it’s degoogled and very useable
Yeah, the older Samsung phones supported custom ROMs which is why I went with the S25. Unfortunately it seems like they all have locked bootloaders now though
no shit, hardcore… lucky im poor and have no prospects of getting a new phone anytime soon