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Graphene is working with a major phone Maker and will be releasing a Graphene compatible phone in 1-2 years

Adb can uninstall Gservices and Magisk has a MicroG module

So in your world, a completely locked down phone is better than a phone that you can easily open up again by flashing a ROM or replacing Gservices for MicroG with adb + Magisk?

Apple now allows sideloading of apps

Apple allows as much sideloading as google wants to next near.

Yes, you can install from .iPa files, but you still need to pay 100€ a year to be able to sign the IPA files, otherwise you cant run them. as much as with googles new policy you now need to pay 25€ + your full name to get a signature, to sign the Apks with

Oh shit, hes hot

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

Just a Heads up, Iode is a Forprofit company, they literally stole most of their Code from LineageOS, an actually good ROM maker, and instead upsell you on their Overpriced NordVPN-like Subscription to block Internet traffic, something Adguard does for free via their DNS.

Also, they want 4€ from you in order to back up your Phone. Something Calyx’s Seedvault does for free on Linaege, calyx and Graphene.

Lineage supports every phone Iode supports, and even more, because, as I said, they just fork their Roms and upsell you.

All functions iode advertises as a subscription, Lineage, Calyx and Graphene, as well as your Stock ROM can already do with the same amount of effort as typing in your credit card info into their Website.

And If you are into this kind of „We take something Open Source, shit on it, and sell it” stuff, Bluesky is there for you.

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.

1. Use mullvad.
2. probably ur email got pwned –> use mullvad. That way the only reason your acc will ever be logged into is your own incompetence to secure a 16 char sequence.