“Google - I signed off from all devices. Dumping my gmail account. Not using Google maps anymore.
Apple - I’m stuck with an iPhone because of work but I won’t buy any accessories or apps from them anymore. As soon as I can switch to another non-Apple or Android device, I will. “
Google is evil. They manipulate searches, search order, listing order, send conservative sites and non-woke information 90 or 100 listings down in searches, censor speech they do not like, demonitize people on youtube and monitor everything you do - where you go - what apps you use - and what you type on Chrome and android.
Conservatives that still use google are letting the enemy use the intimate details of their life be used to control them and selling the intimate details of their life to fund the enemy that wants to control them. Move off all google “products” into other things.
Stop using chrome and switch to Firefox. Chrome literally searches your computer and reports the contents to google as well as follows everything you do. After installing firefox, Immediately install ublock origin add-on which will y allow firefox and google to be run in containers and stop fingerprinting. Ublock also stops google analytics (on 80% of all websaites) from tagging your info and following you around the web. You can do this on android as well as your computer.
Switch from gmail to protonmail.com or tutanota so that google cannot mine your email for info and profit from it.
If you have to use facebook, only use it in Firefox where it is containerized and cannot interact with the rest of your computer and steal your info. Use the browser and never the app. The app is designed to find everything on your computer/device and send them info on it.
If your android is supported by e ( https://e.foundation/) , consider flashing OS onto your phone and then google cannot send your info from your android to it’s servers 3500 times per day as they track you.
There is a lot of good info at https://privacytools.io/
As for apple, while they preach they are privacy focused, they are a walled garden and control access to the garden. If they choose to block the parler app (which they have not done yet) there is little recourse. Getting third party apps on apple is a pain and the phone has to be jailbroke.
Do not use Foxfire, they are evil. Look up what they did to their former leader Brandon Eich. Use brave it does not track you, Eich started it after they tried to destroy him at Firefox.