How may I de-google today?
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GraphenOS is the way to go!
What is it?
GrapheneOS is a operative system for your phone that's open source and its practically identical to android but its super oriented towards privacy. I left android one year ago and I'm so happy. Its an amazing rabithole. Worth mentioning that I have zero technical knowledge and that it's all well built for like me. I went full on bezerk with this and I took it to the extreme. I'm already one year running with 100% open source apps. I only have 2 proprietary apps :: binance and my local bank :)
There is one catch tho... It only works in pixel phones. This is cuz they can run the "developer options" easily and are more ready for such type of experimentation.
You know what's amazing?? When I look at my phone and I know nobody is listening.
Thanks man! Sounds awesome. I hope they develop it for other terminals too!
gp with proton, calyxos, silent.link
take oteasty and step by step, or you will loose motivation
wow lots to explore!
lineageOS /CalyxOS / GrapheneOS.
lineage works with more devices, so if you don't have a Pixel, Lineage has a long list of options.
Just keep in mind that while yes using the Google Pixel is Google hardware and it may seem antithetical to degoogling, choosing any other device with any other OS other than GrapheneOS will still use Google and give them privileged system level access too.
CalyxOS and LineageOS both use Google services without a way to turn them off. Both also include privileged Google apps / services that are enabled by default. AOSP itself doesn't include Google Play. CalyxOS and LineageOS both add more Google apps/services to AOSP.
To clarify, they always use Google services even without microG. They use Google for connectivity checks, network time, attestation key provisioning, SUPL, DNS fallback (LineageOS only), PSDS (Pixel 6 and 7), eSIM activation and more enabled by default
GrapheneOS doesn't use Google services by default, because we don't add Google services and we replace the few used by the Android Open Source Project. See grapheneos.org/faq#default-c… and grapheneos.org/faq#other-con…. This is a very minor part of our work though and not the purpose of it. Purpose of GrapheneOS is not specifically avoiding Google services but WE DO AVOID using them AS THE DEFAULT SERVICES..
By default, we reroute location requests made by apps to Play services to our own implementation of the Google Play location service based on the OS location service. This means apps depending on Google Play location work without it on GrapheneOS by default.
It's not correct to sell the alternatives to GrapheneOS as 'degoogled'. More importantly, none preserves the security model or provides proper security patches.
With GrapheneOS Google Services are an option and one that if chosen can be used completely unprivileged and isolated like another app in the standard app sandbox.
If you don't want to we give the user complete control. Use them dont use them, the power is yours.
