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- OwnTracks allows you to keep track of your own location
- Google will no longer hold onto people's location data in Google Maps
- Replacement for Apple's FindMy?
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Any alternatives to Life360/FindMy?
The only private alternatives are going to be self hosted and will require some technical skill. See owntracks for details.
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Self-hosted Google timeline alternative
I use Owntracks.
- Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?
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Trying to make a pair of compasses that always point to each other
On your side, you need some way to be tracked. Easy solution is an app on your phone, I like OwnTracks as a privacy-respecting option.
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I want more people to know about Obtainium.
It also allows me to keep Owntracks checked for updates while they sort out their current issue regarding being missing from F-Droid.
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Privacy-focused Vehicle Tracking Tool?
Sounds like owntracks with a android headunit https://owntracks.org/
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Updating location on Google maps
OwnTracks is app people can install on their phones that you can setup to send live gps coordinates back to your web server.
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- WhatsApp forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code
- EncroChat
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Popular XMPP App "Conversations" Removed from PlayStore by Google
Relevant copypasta:
Fellow humans, there are alternatives to Google and Apple! Your neck need not be under anyone's boot! You don't even need to give up any functionality:
Data service:
The simplest thing is to buy a prepaid SIM and top it off with cash. The lovely people over at /r/nocontract maintain a big spreadsheet so you can filter by various properties of the available contracts.
Another way to go is to pay for a postpaid plan with a virtual credit card (VCC) like at privacy.com. It won't be linked to your name at the telco, but of course privacy.com knows who you are. There is also Abine Blur, and some others.
Yet a third way to go, which is nascent, is buy an eSIM with crypto. You can also buy prepaid VCCs with crypto.
An interesting new choice is PGPP https://invisv.com/pgpp/ who rotate your IMSI and do some other cool stuff. It works by e-sims.
All these methods make you /pseudo/nymous, but obviously you're still identifiable by subscriber number and possibly IMEI, to put aside correlational things like your traffic profile. You can help this problem by routing everything through a VPN. Then you're pseudonymous but the cell carrier knows nothing about you other than that you use a VPN. Pay for the VPN with crypto. Of course now the VPN provider knows your traffic, but you're much more anonymous to them than you are to a telco. You make your choices. Defense in depth. Etc.
OS:
GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/ Very much like Calyx, but extra-hardened and with no MicroG. No involvement with Google at all by default. You can make a secondary profile in which you install Google Play Services to set up an environment where you can run unprivileged Play services + whatever crapware you need that requires them. Unprivileged here means it's like any other app: if you don't give it access to your location, it won't know where you are. If you end the profile session when you leave, Play Services stops running and stops talking to Google.
CalyxOS: https://calyxos.org/ Privacy-respecting Android distribution that replaces Google spyware with MicroG, so you can have your cake and eat it too. Most everything will work as you're used to, but it does still talk to Google to make that happen.
LineageOS: https://lineageos.org/ The successor to CyanogenMod, will work with many different phones. More privacy and control than stock Android.
There are also many others: Sailfish, Replicant, e
Hardware:
CalyxOS and GrapheneOS run best on Pixels. The path of least resistance is to get one of these phones and run GrapheneOS with Google Services installed in one profile or other.
You could also buy a Librem 5 https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ If privacy and security and hacking are really important to you.
Or a pinephone: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Neither work very well by regular standards, but they're cool :-)
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LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices
It might be worth to switch to GrapheneOS if you have Pixel phones: https://grapheneos.org/
It is a more serious project than LineageOS in the sense that they take security very seriously and they take their development more professionally too. There are no disadvantages to using GrapheneOS compared to LineageOS.
You can see a comparison here: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm
- Apple Announces Changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
- No new iPhone? No secure iOS: Looking at an unfixed iOS vulnerability
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Recommendations for an Android repair shop?
If it still powers up but just won't boot you could try installing https://grapheneos.org/.
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Iphone Vs Android
On 4thgen Pixels and up you can install GrapheneOS which is a security and privacy focused Android build. It does not come with any Google services pre-installed but you can put them on. https://grapheneos.org/
- Suche Handy empfehlung bis 250€ max.
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Are you happy
yes... will also de-google it cuz we can install GrapheneOS and also close the bootloader
What are some alternatives?
gpslogger - :satellite: Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android.
Unihertz-Titan-lineageos-microg - Guide and files required to setup lineageos with microg on the Unihertz Titan
UnifiedNlp - Alternative network location provider for Android, with plugin interface to easily integrate third-party location providers.
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
Overland-iOS - 📌 GPS logger for iOS devices
Magisk - The Magic Mask for Android
Orion - Robust web visualization tool for OwnTracks location data
Seedvault - A backup application for the Android Open Source Project.
Traccar - Traccar GPS Tracking System
plexus - Remove the fear of Android app compatibility on de-Googled devices.
OwnTracks Recorder - Store and access data published by OwnTracks apps
mimalloc - mimalloc is a compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance.