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Question about Graphene OS. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Hi everyone. I'm making my first post to Lemmy now. I bought a Pixel 9A last month and have been on stock android.

I should have installed GrapheneOS without setting up a Google account, but I'm still not familiar with Linux or other systems, even though I know GrapheneOS is based on the Android system. I've been using an iPhone for almost 12 years now. I know how to protect my data/privacy from massive surveillance.

Now I now want to take full control of my pixel phone without Google Play store/service.

My concern is lack of phone screening feature on Graphene OS but I don't want to have any Google service on Graphene OS. How do you deal without it?

Thank you for your response in advance

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[–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

If you're on stock Android, F-Droid will become unusable. If you're on Graphene, you won't be affected at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    If you're on Graphene, you won't be affected at all.

    Not really true. There's a solid chance a bunch of projects are just abandoned.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    I'm talking about access to F-droid. Any changes F-droid and developers make in response to googles changes obviously would also affect Graphene users, but the platform itself is unaffected by Google's changes.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    I understand what you're talking about. FDroid themselves have come out and said this could be the end of the project, which is what I was alluding to. I would say that has an enormous affect on the platform, and the entire Android ecosystem as a whole.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    About that, here is the statement from FDroid:

    If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app distribution sources as we know them today, and the world will be deprived of the safety and security of the catalog of thousands of apps that can be trusted and verified by any and all. F-Droid’s myriad users will be left adrift, with no means to install — or even update their existing installed — applications. (How many F-Droid users are there, exactly? We don’t know, because we don’t track users or have any registration: “No user accounts, by design”)

    The two phone OSs which have together 98% of market would be under locked control of big tech companies. You could argue Android is still slightly less locked than iOS. But it seems like a distinction with not so much practical difference.

    It's a corporate capture of mobile computing. Not only they sell you the device, but the device will answer to its master only. That is not you.

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