Its a good degoogle phone?
Change Brave with Ironfox (ublock origin extension) and you are ok.
Brave is Chrome, Chrome is Google
Brave is chromium* Chromium ≈ Google, but no = Google I switch for Fennec btw
Google has been proven to track users via chromium, so chromium is = Google
Chromium is a base provided by Google that’s used to build browsers, but people using it can just strip out the Google trackers from the code.
What launcher is that?
Smart launcher
K-9 got rebranded to Thunderbird. I see Mozilla are releasing K-9 at the same time, but I’m unsure why. Thunderbird is double the size so there must be some kind of difference
I’ve found that I too had to keep Google Play Store because some apps complain if it goes missing. However I’ve blocked network access for it (something GrapheneOS can do) and it’s effectively cut off from the mothership.
From what I understand, K-9 is smaller because Thunderbird has more telemetry.
Neither have reported trackers on the Aurora store. But I would suspect it’s some kind of bloat. I’m sure it’s trivial to do an apk teardown and check the source code. I can’t be bothered though.
why do people insist on using fucking brave
Probably because of this https://www.privacyguides.org/en/mobile-browsers/
SimpleLogin, Mullvad, Ente, Notesnook, Aegis, Bitwarden, ProtonMail… and fucking TikTok. Come on man, all that effort to improve your privacy and then you go and install literal spyware on your phone? At least isolate it on its own user profile if you really have to.
so how can I do that then??
Check out Shelter on Fdroid, it creates a 2nd profile for compartmentalizing apps.
Try deleting TikTok and trying Loops, the fediverse alternative.
I’ve heard of this Fediverse thing but I don’t know what it is, can you tell me what it’s all about?
You’re on a part of it. Lemmy instances are a part of the fediverse. The idea is different social networks that can have cross communication. Decentralized as well.
Yea, for example you can comment a Lemmy post from Mastodon or any other social media that’s in the Fediverse
You mean create a new user profile? Just follow the instructions here, that is how it works on AOSP and all ROMs that don’t diverge too much from it. Then just keep TikTok and only TikTok there, so it doesn’t have access to the rest of your data.
I love that OP got more hate for using brave than tiktok :D . Anyway good job and happy degoogling :)
omg, you’re right!
degoogling but installing tiktok hahah
all the work just for TT an roblox. side note if you didnt already you should disable internet perms on brawl stars
it doesn’t make much sense to disable internet permissions for brawl stars since it’s an online game, like, I really need that
Delete TikTok
