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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoWell, one of the great things about Pixels is that you can install an alternative OS (I use GrapheneOS) that doesn’t come with that crap anyway. I use GrapheneOS, and it has none of Google’s crap. I made a separate profile for the handful of apps that require Google stuff (a couple work apps), and I only access it for less than a minute at a time, and those apps (Google Play Services) have no access to the device’s storage that they don’t strictly need (hooray storage scopes!).
The ironic thing is that I use Google’s phone specifically to avoid Google.
lapping6596@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I did similar, I needed a new phone so I picked pixel so I could use GrapheneOS continue the process of degoogling my life.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
To be fair, you don’t need a Pixel to degoogle, there are a couple other high quality ROMs that can help with that. But I do think GrapheneOS on Google Pixel is the gold standard, because you get all of the security features Google has put into the Pixel, but without Google’s spyware.