This is an update on my privacy setup since my last post. Yeah, I know WhatsApp belongs to Meta and is handing over all my data to the US, Israel, Iran, China, the Vatican, and Mars, but for personal reasons, I can’t ditch it right now. How can I improve my setup?
I can’t format my phone and install GrapheneOS since my phone is a Motorola, not a Google Pixel. I need Uber and the Play Store, there’s not much I can do about that. “roblox linda cringe” isn’t a good reason to uninstall it for privacy reasons.
You can have a look at Roblox’s Exodus report, if you’re curious about the trackers/permissions. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/729804/
And it has no LineageOS either?
I’m currently stuck with stock too, but at least with uad-ng, you can remove/freeze the offenders (or root it and also get a firewall).
Careful: Play Store itself can not be removed, only frozen; you’ll get a boot loop otherwise.
And in case of the Xperia 10, i’ve had to replace the stock dialer (phone app) with the fossify one, since it and a few useless sony apps got crazy about missing Play Services.
Here is the link to UAD-ng: https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation/
unfortunately there’s no LineageOS for my Motorola either, I really looked for many privacy-focused operating systems and none of them run on my Motorola
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/32656-motorola-partnership-announcement