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I've basically accidentally de-Googled my life.
What sort of phone do you have?
De-googling that (unless it's Apple) is the real fun.
NotThamesWater-
Android still, a Pixel.
I thought it couldn't be anything else... I was too heavily into Google. But for a couple of years now I've been replacing apps with links to web pages (i.e. even Deliveroo on my mobile is a link to a web page), and I've changed my default browser to Firefox, and I run NoScript with that, and then have NextDNS as my Private DNS. It's suprising how few apps one really genuinely needs.
I can't consider Apple as they only allow Safari. I do feel open to a rooted Android now.
The last Google things I have are the phone, and the Google Nest things. I could live with keeping the accounts on the smart home hardware, it's dumbed down by my lack of other stuff and microphones are off by default (I use my phone).
The phone doesn't feel as critical as it once was in this equation.
Velocio
Ugh... I feel I'm going too far, but yet to not do so feels dumb.
I've basically accidentally de-Googled my life.
So far I've moved email to Fastmail, calendar to Fastmail, Google Drive has been replaced by Syncthing, Maps I use whilst logged out, authenticator has been replaced with Aegis (Android), and password manager with Bitwarden.
But now I've even stopped using Chrome, am using VPN more, relying on NoScript and Firefox.
Seems weird... what started were concerns that I'd made my email account too powerful and that all my eggs were in one basked (a basket where an automated script might find me in breach of some undefined rule and then rescind all access to the account).
Has now been further reinforced by reading about the sheer breadth of tracking that is being undertaken and how they're making blocking it really hard.
No real point to this comment except to say that my prior posts are out of date... my approach to being online is evolving. And LFGSS is one of the very few properties I trust online.