Huh, with a recent pixel, I'm puzzled why anyone would be excited about running anything other than GrapheneOS; is that not the holy grail of Android privacy?
And it is also the everything but holy hell of People who want to say they are Privacy Activists without changing anything about their Behaviour and/or the Apps/glorified spying software they use every day, aka. Lobotomies, as I call them.
GrapheneOS is very good at blocking Bad stuff. But without this Bad stuff, the Neobanking/Privacy nightmares Apps wont work, As well as their McDonalds App, and other stuff like Reddit, WhatsApp, etc
And yes, someone one really complained to me that without Gservices, their Burgerking app won't work.
Now, I don't want to say that everyone has the Option to opt out of every single one of these, but if you can't, just get a second, older phone with the Spyware, and a main one.
But the least you CAN do is not complain about your Email client or Calendar working, since those all support open source protocols. And even if not, if you have the time to migrate your whole Phone to another ROM, you have the indefinite time to migrate your Email to something like Tuta or Proton, since you can just set up mail forwarding until you migrated.
I'm a lobotomy but I'm trying to figure out how to decouple. I wouldn't classify privacy behavior as being some sort of purity scale, the way you seem to be. I still use proprietary apps, not because I want to, but because I necessarily have to due to a myriad of personal reasons where the time commitment to switch is larger than the current amount of free time I want to invest in it. It's that simple.
I understand that privacy is an angering issue, it is for me too, but its better to redirect that hatred towards the corporations and systems that want to remove privacy protections instead of a niche group of people that took one step in a set of many in their journey for their data privacy.
Then switch to Foss apps first, switch to the degoogled OS second
If you just install a degoogled Rom, you are going to have more problems then if you just switch to Foss apps. And since you yourself say that you don't have time, it would of course be Easier to do it the other way around
Also, you are gonna have an extremely bad time if one of those stops working randomly, since MicroG has its problems too.
That's how I did it at least, I switched out everything on my stock pixel, and only once I knew there are only less than 3 apps I needed, that I for sure can't switch out, that didn't use Play Integrity, I switched. It saved me a lot of headache
I got excited about this and then discovered that the pixel 8a is one of the few recent models they don't support :(
Huh, with a recent pixel, I'm puzzled why anyone would be excited about running anything other than GrapheneOS; is that not the holy grail of Android privacy?
I thought options were a good thing. Guess not.
It is.
And it is also the everything but holy hell of People who want to say they are Privacy Activists without changing anything about their Behaviour and/or the Apps/glorified spying software they use every day, aka. Lobotomies, as I call them.
GrapheneOS is very good at blocking Bad stuff. But without this Bad stuff, the Neobanking/Privacy nightmares Apps wont work, As well as their McDonalds App, and other stuff like Reddit, WhatsApp, etc
And yes, someone one really complained to me that without Gservices, their Burgerking app won't work.
Now, I don't want to say that everyone has the Option to opt out of every single one of these, but if you can't, just get a second, older phone with the Spyware, and a main one.
But the least you CAN do is not complain about your Email client or Calendar working, since those all support open source protocols. And even if not, if you have the time to migrate your whole Phone to another ROM, you have the indefinite time to migrate your Email to something like Tuta or Proton, since you can just set up mail forwarding until you migrated.
I'm a lobotomy but I'm trying to figure out how to decouple. I wouldn't classify privacy behavior as being some sort of purity scale, the way you seem to be. I still use proprietary apps, not because I want to, but because I necessarily have to due to a myriad of personal reasons where the time commitment to switch is larger than the current amount of free time I want to invest in it. It's that simple.
I understand that privacy is an angering issue, it is for me too, but its better to redirect that hatred towards the corporations and systems that want to remove privacy protections instead of a niche group of people that took one step in a set of many in their journey for their data privacy.
Then switch to Foss apps first, switch to the degoogled OS second
If you just install a degoogled Rom, you are going to have more problems then if you just switch to Foss apps. And since you yourself say that you don't have time, it would of course be Easier to do it the other way around
Also, you are gonna have an extremely bad time if one of those stops working randomly, since MicroG has its problems too.
That's how I did it at least, I switched out everything on my stock pixel, and only once I knew there are only less than 3 apps I needed, that I for sure can't switch out, that didn't use Play Integrity, I switched. It saved me a lot of headache