OOShutup10 works good.

what phone did you buy then and how did you get rid of and or block google play services?

I bought mine from Telus … so i would think Telus gave them the money a long time ago for said phone and i’m just giving Telus back their money … now i’m not giving money or data to anyone.

I dunno i have put Mint on many computers including an 80 year old woman who just checks her email and news. No one ever has issues and i don’t get calls . I think Linux has a PR issue more than a “barrier” … I would say Mint “just works” great .

I ran this script to remove copilot and it installs a stub update to make it appear its still installed so M$ won’t try again… working so far.

https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

for the most part if your using Chrome you don’t care about your privacy anyway …

Grayjay

I’ve heard of it but never tried. I’ll give it a go. can I get it on F-droid ?. I don’t use Youtube alot on my phone, I listen to the Wan show and do yoga every night haha Thank you!

same , never really used it but deleted it.

I try and block everything all the time. the fight is real. PipePipe for youtube , Firefox + Ublock for web . Exploited firestick with Wolf Launcher and SmartTube on TV , Linux on all PCs , DeGoogled phone (wip) and Adguard DNS on the router. Windows PC’s at work with copilot, onedrive removed and ooshutup10 . Also use a few modded apps such as Tubi with no ads and my sleep music app with no ads. Probably more ive forgotten but always open to suggestions and the work is never done.