Ethical Digital Products

[JosepMSH]

Hi everyone!

After updating my FP3 to Android 10 I plan to use non-google services on my phone (and I try to do it with the rest of my digital consumption).

Anyone here know ethical email options or alternatives to google products like Drive, Gmail and similar?

My main goals on focus are: ecologist, not racist, not imperialist, not capitalist, feminist, fair trade, and so on…

No need to have all of them verified but at least that doesn’t use the company and political policies that those companies like google, apple, microsoft and similar use to use.

In my daily life I already changed almost all my consumption with ethical bank, electricity, comunications, assurances to cooperatives and /or ecological companies. Even with food, health and hygiene products.

But I lack of digital references.

Thanks!

[Alex.A]

Hi there and welcome to the community forum!
Check this thread:

What is you favorite, well working, google app alternative?

I really like my Fairphone 3. Everything (once I learned the odd location of the NFC), just works, and its fast. At least, fast enought for me. I’m not overly worried about the privacy considerations by using Android on my phone - and I really don’t want this thread to turn into one of those discussions. Really. No. That said, I’m happy that there exists good, and sometimes way better, alternatives to Google Apps. My own findings are: Microsoft Outlook - a straight forward IMAP client for my…

I use FairEmail for emails, Nextcloud for the drive, Osmand+ for the maps, Davx5 for synchronisation, QKSMS for SMSes, Telegram for messaging, Newpipe for Youtube (all these apps can be found on fdroid).
You might want to install /e/OS on your Fairphone, which is a degoogled version to android which comes with preinstalled apps that are alternatives to Google.
You can also follow the livingwogoogle tag.

Edit: You’ll mainly want to check this very detailed post by @AnotherElk:

@AnotherElk

Replacement Apps

Calculator : Arity from F-Droid
(I tried Calculator from F-Droid, too, but it’s really basic. When I seldomly need a calculator, I want to have some advanced stuff. I didn’t try Simple Calculator from F-Droid, because it looked pretty basic on the screenshots, too.)

Calendar : Simple Calendar Pro from F-Droid
(I don’t work much with the calendar, I just sync my few calendar events from Thunderbird to it … I tried Etar from F-Droid, too, and it would work for me as well.)

Camera : Google Camera with HDR+, Nightsight etc. (Xiaomi Poco F1 port) from XDA
(I kept the original Camera App, too, for the moment … can’t decide just now whether to omit it or not.
A well-known and widely used non-Google camera App would be Open Camera from F-Droid.)

Clock : Simple Clock from F-Droid

Contacts : Contacts 1.7.31 by LineageOS from APKMirror
(I tried Simple Contacts from F-Droid, but it can’t put shortcuts of contacts to the home screen, and I absolutely want to have that. Furthermore, one out of two times I tried it, Simple Contacts couldn’t see my contacts when Dialer and LineageOS Contacts could … weird.)

Dialer : Lineage OS Phone 19.0 by LineageOS (Variant: September 21, 2018) from APKMirror
(As Emerald Dialer from F-Droid seemingly doesn’t cut it yet.)

Files : Ghost Commander or Amaze from F-Droid
(There’s still a use case for Files, though.)

Gboard : Simple Keyboard from F-Droid
( Attention! This will not work with a password as unlocking method, use a PIN instead .)

Gmail : Email 9 by LineageOS from APKMirror
(I tried SimpleEmail and FairEmail from F-Droid, both pretty similar K9 forks, but I didn’t like them.)

Google Chrome : Fennec F-Droid from … well … F-Droid

Google Maps : OsmAnd+ from F-Droid
(In case of need Google Maps has a usable website.)

Google Play Store : Aurora Store from F-Droid
(I deactivated the Play Store since Aurora got anonymous login to the Play Store back .)

Launcher : Lawnchair from F-Droid
(I tried Trebuchet from XDA, too, which would work for me, too, but with F-Droid there’s at least a way for automatic updates, even if there are none in sight in this case for now.)

Messages : QKSMS from F-Droid

Music : VLC from F-Droid

Photos : Simple Gallery Pro from F-Droid

Videos : VLC from F-Droid

YouTube : Has a usable website.

[urs_lesse]

If you are also after hardware options and still use a desktop computer, you might be interested in Nager IT’s fair mouse.

[JosepMSH]

Thanks to both of your! Ill take a look to those options and will ask if I have any doubt, thanks

[chrisse]

For an ethical email, you can try posteo, for exemple.