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Boxing Android (self.privacy)

submitted 1 year ago by jabjoe to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So I've got Android as I want. LineageOS, no Google, Magisk, MicroG but with AndroidAuto with OsmAnd+.

But the outside world of WhatsApp, Bank apps, etc is putting pressure to join. Plus not everything works properly with MicroG instead of the Google service provider. Makes me cross techno-politically, but I can't always hard life tech choices when it effects others.

So, what do others do? At the moment, I've thinking I need a non-free phone and a free-phone! Then what, I keep swapping SIM?? I can't see a workable VM solution to run a non-free Android in a freer Android.

The state of the phone market is pitiful.

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[–] chevy9294@monero.town 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Use different profiles. They seperate apps, data, settings, etc. I use these profiles:

personal (for photos, communication, etc.)
internet (lemmy, mastodon, vpn, torrent, new pipe, etc.)
google (play store, drive, maps, translate, etc.)
finance (bank, paypal, localmonero, crypto wallets, etc.)
school (teams, canva, web shortcuts, etc.)

I think in vanilla android you can have 3 user profiles and 1 guest. I use grapheneos which supports 15 users and 1 guest.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you can't have a profile with MicroG, and another with google play services, because they are installed systemwide, and afaik can't be confined to a profile.

[–] chevy9294@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh right... In that case I would install just google play services and disable/uninstall it on profiles I dont need.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

But you can't disable google play services on certain profiles. It's there, system wide, has access to everything, and is accessible by all apps. Actually it does so heavy modifications to the system that once installed you can't really remove it, or at least the advice for removal is always a clean install of the system, there's no official way for removal or a way that is recommended by any popular ROM

[–] jabjoe 2 points 10 months ago

I'm on GrapheneOS now. I like the Sandboxing of Google. A compromise without feeling too compromised. The bank app runs too. Thanks for heads on GrapheneOS.