I actually have a graphene phone and love it. We were using my husbands phone to sign in to google. I think thats why it felt so invasive to me, i had not tried signing in for so long.
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I keep an old phone (no SIM) on hand and use that when I need to sign into Google--
All permissions are turned off (e.g. location) it never leaves the house, and every time I pick it up I know I'm being tracked (so I only use it for certain things--games mostly).
Graphene for everything else 😃 and a great use for an old phone.
Good idea.
Even though you can sandbox Google Play Services on Graphene, I still prefer keeping all that stuff off my phone.
If Google wants to track the apps on that old phone, they're welcome to that information. Nothing else goes on that phone.
(For TV, we do have Amazon Prime - comes with Prime free shipping, so we use that--but even then we're getting tracked and profiled...yet that suffices for our TV).
And of course Amazon Sidewalk is not enabled...still, it's our only real concession to being actively tracked...can't really avoid Amazon.