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Wasn't exactly this talked about a few years ago?

I wonder if that feature is synced or if its local on my phone only

How does the user tags feature work?

On your phone?

Give Thunder a try on your phone, it looks good, but the performance for me is really bad

I've been trying out the frontend Alexandrite on browser on PC, thoughts?

I hear you, I do trust Apple more than Google. I know Apple is more closed down when it comes to freedom and features, so I could use icloud, there is a little guide to iOS privacy here, also talking about iCloud

I actually use newpipe for casting to my chromecast at the moment so I see the appeal

I dont wanna mess with the security of my device, and in my experience, getting rid of Googles tracking entirely is kind of inconvenient,

in my country people can look you up and know where you live, but they most probably cant hack your gps and find you, maybe the government can but im not hiding from the government.

But the point of my post is looking for what options there are to limit the data im feeding to big corps like google, i cant degoogle completely unfortunately

How is it ironic, I want to find a balance with privacy and convenience.

What people have told me earlier, is that it's a bunch of sacrificing to have better privacy.

I've tried graphenOS on a pixel, not using and having google track you means you lose the convenience of really good gps accuracy. For me using only Mozillas location service resulted in slow and inaccurate GPS, could probably have tried to tinker more with it but it had problems even under roofs to get a lock on my location.

That doesn't work for me when my phone is a tool. That's an example of a sacrifice I don't feel like making in my life right now, I also need to use some microsoft and google products for what I'm studying for, which means I cant get rid of privacy invasive stuff altogether, which is why im asking here to see what my options are so I can put something together that works for me

I said in my post that I dont like google, dont like the ui or ux of anything related to google.

I don't like the ux on Samsung either, and I kind of got stuck with this phone a bit back by my own fault.

I don't think ios is a better solution for privacy or anything related to that, I just prefer iOS and I wanted to see what my options are when I make the switch, I apologize if I offend anyone for mentioning iOS.

The reason for not using a custom rom on my Samsung is because alot of people have been telling me to stick to stock OS on Samsung, its the recommended thing to do for security if I remember correctly (got told this by a guy in the grapheneOS community)

Regarding Apple, That's what I feel too, but I don't feel like going Pixel and GrapheneOS or fairphone etc.

But I still want to optimize my privacy and move to open source alternatives where I can without sacrificing too much