I don’t like smartphones. I use a dumbphone.

But this is a wonderful initiative.

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    5 hours ago

    /e/ has built in privacy features

    /e/ uses a for profit 3rd party for unencrypted backups. That alone should be a big red flag.

    is google-free and runs MicroG

    So it runs google. MicroG just limits what data is sent to google.

    You can even use your apps that you purchased from the PlayStore.

    You can do the same with aurora store. That’s available on just about every phone.

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      12 minutes ago

      It a perfectly usable Android for the average user. Everything works out of the boy. If it is not for you, fine. Buy a Pixel.

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      3 hours ago

      You can do the same with aurora store. That’s available on just about every phone.

      not if the app attempts to verify its license through the play store. you need microg for that, or patch it

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      Well even graphene os still runs a version of Android. So there is still some goggle code in that. But ripping oit google play, amd various goggle services means goggle doesn’t track you with those. Yeah if you still ise gmail and log into toutube every day they will.

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        3 hours ago

        there is still some goggle code in that.

        But that code is open source, and it has been verified that it dosent track you.