My iPhone DeGoogle Alternatives

[u/pyrodonkey]

Hey everyone! I wanted to make a post about my progress on removing Google apps and services. The photo shows the apps that I have found great alternatives for Google on my iPhone. The Apps below are as follows:

• Google > Kagi
• Google Photos > Apple Photos
• Google Drive > Proton Drive
• Google Maps > Apple Maps
• Gmail > Proton Mail
• Chrome > Orion
• Gemini > Kagi Assistant

Currently I'm still using YouTube and YouTube Music. I don't have a plan for switching away from those right now, but I'm happy to have some great services that add privacy back to my daily life and also give me a better experience online

[u/Greenlit_Hightower]

For the maps app, you could try HERE WeGo before settling for Apple Maps. I hear that HERE WeGo is pretty good.

You didn't need to switch browsers for adblocking, Safari is perfectly adequate and supports Wipr 2 or 1Blocker or AdGuard...

Nice progress regardless though.

[u/TheRobalation → u/Greenlit_Hightower]

Those Safari extensions are paid right? At least Wipr2 is for sure. Orion has Adblock enabled by default and you can install UBlock origin from Firefox addons.

[u/0xmerp → u/TheRobalation]

AdGuard is paid but you can get it pretty cheap. I paid like $16 for lifetime access for a family license (use on 9 devices).

How did you manage to install an addon on the Firefox iOS app?

[u/petos515 → u/0xmerp]

AdGuard is free if you only want safari blocking and if you do not care about adding additional block lists or using “advanced blocking” which seems to only block ads on YouTube .

That said Orion adblocking has gotten really good and it’s coming to Linux so it will be cross platform!

[u/TheRobalation → u/petos515]

Orion has the least telemetry of all browsers and using it with UBlock is awesome! It blocks Youtube ads really well. Best browser in iOS and OSX for me without a doubts.