Joël de Bruijn

Google only respects corporate boundaries for specific things (like email and cloud storage of the org doing the mdm).

Your use case has a lot, outside of that, meaning all consumer services they track anyway.

If its without an account they keep a profile without account info, but every data point they get adds to it nonetheless.

In NL we did research of MDM kids accounts for schools. Turns out all those things not school related they keep tracking.

Android:

OSS Weather from Meteo france https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.akylas.weather

OpenWeather https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.openweather

Overmorrow https://github.com/bmaroti9/Overmorrow

Linux:

Mousam https://amit9838.github.io/mousam/

Last I did this it was with an external hard drive. First via USB with changed boot order and later on with a Thunderbolt Samsung X5 drive which is considered “second internal drive” for performance reasons.

Forgot this existed, tested it 5 years ago or so. Latest release is from 2019.

AFAIK every message propagates through the entire network, not knowing its destination, but only the rigth recipient can decrypt it. As a consequence of the scuttlebutt protocol.

That didnt seem scalable to me …

For Android, Universal Debloater is your friend.

https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation

When developer mode is possible at least.

Microsoft owns ChatGPT … 🤔🙈

Just a read before one invest time in w3w … https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/endless-downward-spiral-is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-what3words/

All in all my conclusion after experiencing the same: Samsung wants to replicate the same level of surveilance Google has. So with a Samsung phone I need to degoogle AND to desamsung …