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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'm still jacked into Google through Android and Gmail. Seriously considering a grapheneOS phone, or something similar.

[–]cottoneyejoe[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think the most important step you can make is to get rid of your gmail account and log in and go through and delete your data that google saves (searches, trips, from location tracking) in every tentacle of google after you have exported all of your data with a takeout. You'll have to change your email at all of your favorite sites. Other email providers will let make it easy to import all of your gmail and calendars. After you have migrated, delete all of your mail in gmail and from trash and setup a redirect to have any lingering email forwarded to your new address. After a while your forwarded email should be just spam to gmail.

See some of the generally agreed on privacy email providers: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/#email

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've got a proton address, so changing websites will be a big deal with Amazon and my bank.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

what you do is forward all of your gmail to your new email, and gradually wean yourself off.

my tipping point was seeing their page of all of my financial transactions that they had mined out of my email, with no option to turn it off.