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Android alternative app and block trackers

Focusing in the avoid at all the apps that track you, skipping from Google Play Services, Facebook, Amazon in general big tech.
Tracker are lib's that the apps install inside, to spyware you and collect data in silent mode.

To Monitor/Analyses you can you Tracker Control

Tracker

It's in action on my Phone

If you Click
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With this app you can block some requests from specific apps.
Another way to check if an specific app are tracking you is the Exodus Reports, check this out for Strava app.

Strava

Mostly of the apps you can install using F-Droid o Aurora Store, alternative option to Google Play Store.

Alternative Apps
I really like this list Awesome-Privacy and DeGoogle.

The both list are very good to start, For youtube, no ads, no trackers, no sponsor, newPipe is very good, but Tubular is awesome,

tubular
for Desktop I recommend Materialio, good replacement for Youtube, and no tracks no ads.

For explorer Files Material Files is very good, and have a option to make a internal temporary FTP server, and you can connect from you computer using FileZilla client and download your files.

To listening musics Spotube is decent but works only for Music, To Podcast Antenna Pod .

To message, step back and use SimpleX, or PGP communication for any messageria service, if you don't have Xmpp server you need to guarantee that use PGP to encrypt your message, but the another people need to learning PGP.

Email proton is a decent to start, they have a good support and you can download the PGP keys and you, but I still recommend that you learn about PGP and use yours.

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