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Advice on degoogling (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by eternauta@lemmy.ml to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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I'm looking into dumping googlified android with the upcoming lockdowns.

I'm a beginner-intermediate with FOSS tech: I use Ubuntu as my main machine at home, and have Lineage on a couple of old phones that I use for things at home. I use Fdroid a lot, and have things like newpipe as well on my basic Chinese handset, along with google services.

I can't really handle bleeding edge things very well, and I'm aware that even stock android isn't perfect. Just looking for options/advice.

I understand some banking apps etc will be difficult to run outside of google, and this is something that will be tough, but I'm prepping for it.

Graphene seems to be the most popular, but at this stage my understanding is it only works on Pixel phones. I'm also aware of fairphone. I know that lineage is supported on some Oneplus phones, but I don't know how safe/secure that might be.

I know that most things aren't really 'secure' in the sense that companies all snoop, but I'm thinking about things like banking or NFC payment, which I sometimes do use.

Any advice would be helpful, even if it's just confirming that the price of escaping google might be giving up a lot of this functionality right now....

Thanks in advance!

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yup, GrapheneOS only on Pixels for now, Motorola sometime in the next year-ish. Banking apps may or may not work in a fully degoogled state (gOS lets you install and uninstall Play Store / Services, by fully degoogled I mean uninstalled) or even with Play Store active, it's hit or miss by cases, but you can use a bank website just fine. Same with NFC (but I just put a credit card in my phone case for most of that use case). Google Pay does not work to the best of my knowledge, but we're trying to degoogle...

You can set up a main fully degoogled user and a second user with Google Play where pretty much everything works fine (except some banking stuff as mentioned) while you find google free replacements for your main. You can install many Play store apps in main via Aurora store, and then revoke their network permission so the don't phone home / show ads. You can also install many paid apps in your degoogled main by installing Play, installing the apps and then uninstalling Play Store. E.g. Poweramp and MoonReader work for me but Tasker has some draconian verification BS going on and I decided to give up on it and use a combination of Automation and Termux.

All up not really that bad for me.

[–] eternauta@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Credit card in phone case is actually a nice idea (and somewhat obvious in hindsight)for the NFC thing, thanks!