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shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Using open source software on lineage OS or graphene OS with no Google Play services solves the vast majority of the problems brought up in this article. It doesn’t solve all of them, but it solves most of them.
raldone01@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I moved over to mostly open source apps where possible. My main issue will be the banking apps that insist on safety net.
Graphene os is great on paper but I would like to buy a different brand than pixel like fairphone.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Access your bank through your web browser. And if your bank does not allow you access through your web browser, get a new bank. That’s what I did.
raldone01@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The issue is that the web login requires their app. All major banks in my country have this requirement but I will have another look when the time for a new phone comes.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Don’t use a major bank then. Use a smaller bank.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
I would want to get on a de-Googled grapheneos phone, but I know some apps will be painful to give up (e.g. Google Calendar) and I can’t predict how many apps will not be installable or not work correctly without Google Play services.
Broken@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
Moving to GrapheneOS doesn’t have to be full bore. While it obviously wouldn’t be as private, you could run google services sandboxed. That restricts google quite a bit rather than giving it full rights to everything on your phone. Other features you can take advantage of are granular permissions per app and the ability to easily turn things on and off (such as mic, camera, location), restrictions to contacts, restriction to files/folders, etc… Youd be amazed how much you can clean up your exposure even with google services running. But yes, you’d need to give up using google apps like calendar for any of it to do any good.
eleitl@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Pixels are okay hardware-wise. Lifecycle is not much of a limit, since you’re relying on the upstream for patches anyway.