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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Paying for spy-ware,
how dense do they think we are?!

Let Google rot :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yes,

But the software on it has been completely re-done to enhance it's privacy and functionality.

I'm running LineageOSforMicroG,
with Magisk/LSPosed,
to run things like AdAway/XPrivacyLua/Blocker.

Additionally I replace everything I can with FOSS from F-Droid,
and scan all apps from Aurora (Play Store) with ClassyShark3xodus, against well known trackers, to either look for better alternatives, or to block the spy-ware in them with Blocker.

Further, a premium no-log VPN, which has been vetted (servers confiscated in the past, though 0 logs retrieved), configured as always-on + block connections without.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep, that might actually do it lol. Not even being sarcastic here 😅

But to be fair, I don't think most people are tech-literate enough to set up and use all of that properly. I think it would help if someone compiled a one-install package of all of that, but lots of people just don't like change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I don't expect that average users will become android/privacy experts.

I don't even think of my own privacy being all that important.

However systematic privacy,
through laws that protect us all,
that's what the average joe should be made aware off and stand up for.