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Soft degoogle on Android with Launchers

Pre-installed Google apps that can’t be uninstalled can be incredibly frustrating. But not everyone can afford a new phone (also not to mention the environmental impact), and rooting your device is not for everyone. The good news is, there is a simple solution for Android users: open-source launchers that let you hide those apps for good. Below, I’ve rounded up some options to help you take back control of your home screen:

Unfortunately, it is not that easy for iOS, but if you have more suggestions, I would love to read them in the comments

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My additional soft degoogle trick includes installing F-droid, from the store installing Rethink VPN and making it the only ethernet interface for all phone traffic. That way you can block whole apps from accessing the network or certain IPs / domains for any app. I have done this because I can't fucking stand apps like keyboard (gboard) or camera which I don't need to fetch anything connecting to the internet.
- why don't you use a foss keyboard?
  
  Which do you like?
  
  i use AnySoftKeyboard because it has good multilingual support and i can tweak it exactly to my preferences.
  i have heliboard on other machines where i'm not the only user (or i'm not the user). It's more of a "default keyboard".
  They are both good.
  
  It's different reasons with each one I tried.

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