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How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device (www.howtogeek.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Got a pixel? Check out calyxos, it's a free system upgrade that rips out anything google but allows almost everything to work, even the play store and all your usual games and bank apps.

Calyxos.org

E: nevermind. It was great while it lasted.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you have a Pixel, then GrapheneOS is the sensible choice. Not least because it currently only works with Pixels anyway.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What moron is willingly still purchasing pixels? Might as well put a livefeed camera for Google HQ in your home lol

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I bought a Pixel 9 with the sole intention of putting Graphene on it. I wasn't massively down with giving Google money, but my provider offered it to me for £30, then £30 a month on contract. Can't argue with that.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    If you tear out the parts that talk to Google, then the phone hardware isn't spying on you. It's just hardware.

    The critical piece tying your phone to Google every 3 minutes is called "play services".

    Calyxos was an OS for the pixel hardware that replaced play services with a FOSS library (called microG) which tricked regular apps into thinking they were talking to and getting responses from Google, when it was actually all happening on your phone.

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