How To DE-GOOGLE Your Phone!

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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

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  1. Captain Mike May 11, 2022 at 09:33

    Hello. Graphene looks good. ALTHOUGH I didn’t like we’re unable to use phone apps (android apps framed in off of the linux kernel). I tried sailfish os which I very much enjoy except it has limited development in BLE and even bluetooth other than linking a bt headphone or car audio. I ended up with LineageOS+microG for running RC apps, Beartooth radios and whatnot. Maybe GrapheneOS has changed since a few years back though. I’m curious to hear what others have tried. Thanks.

    • vyt1az May 11, 2022 at 12:12

      GrapheneOS is pretty nice these days. While it comes completely de-googled out of the box, they have a spoofed version of the Google play store so that you can install Play apps but Google gets fake data on who and where you are. You don’t even need to log into the Play store for it to work. You’d only need to log in if you had apps you paid for that you want to use.

      The other nice thing is user profiles. So you can have one profile sandboxed to install whatever Google Play apps you want, and another profile that has more secure APKs that you trust and can’t go anywhere near your Sandboxed Play account.

      I keep a few work-related apps like 2FA and company messaging in the sandbox. Everything else goes into my main profile and is either downloaded from the source, or in some cases F-Droid.

      I’ve had a few apps that didn’t work, but most work fine, and most of the things I use, I have web-based alternatives for.

      The always-on VPN feature has worked great, I get regular rolling updates and the reliability has been as good or better than iOS.

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