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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (20 children)

I wouldn't use it, but always appreciate Open Source solutions that can be self hosted if you want.

If you really care about your privacy, think about to not use stock Android. Instead consider an alternative that is based on Android, but stipping out all the Google and tracking from the operating system, such as "/e/" operating system (bad name): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//e/_(operating_system) and https://e.foundation/e-os/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (16 children)

/e/ is not very degoogled. DivestOS or GrapheneOS would be better choices, then maybe CalyxOS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

/e/ does quite a good job removing Google's presence from Android. It's been awhile since I watched it, but this techlore video does a good breakdown of it.

Edit: actually that's not the one I was thinking of, I'll keep trying to find it, but it broke down the actually network connections that different degoogled ROMs were making and /e/ did very well.

Edit 2: couldn't find the video, it's lost somewhere in my watch history from 2+ years ago. In any case, even jumping to lineage from stock android is a great move, and /e/ makes many improvements on Lineage in removing further dependence on google code. Better to use a phone you already have than to purchase a new device just to run software that has security features you likely don't need. It makes me think of buying a car for it's top speed of 160 mph when you're only ever going to be driving the speed limit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

this techlore video

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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