Want to avoid big tech companies and take control of your privacy in a usable, human, understandable way?
This list contains all the apps and services that I use or recommend.
Browser
For Android: Firefox
For Desktop: Zen Browser
Texting
Signal
Office
LibreOffice
Proton.me office suite
Email, VPN, calendar, password manager, etc
Proton.me
Chess
lichess.org
Computer OS
Any Debian-based non-canonical distro like Kubuntu without snaps
Fedora
CachyOS
Phone and OS
Google Pixel 8 running GrapheneOS
Android appstores
F-Droid
Aurora Store
YouTube
NewPipe (Android)
NouTube (Android) (only when NewPipe has issues)
youtube.com without watch history or account (Desktop)