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De-everything enough? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by ori@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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(I reposted this bc some applications were missing.) I had to install some apps because of school. Btw, can you say improvements that I can make? I can't install anything that isn't from playstore. Edit: Duolingo is now just a PWA

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[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not really imo,
however doing good taking small steps OP! :)

Suggestions I'd make:

Aim to use nothing/as little as possible from the Play Store (proprietary, often filled with trackers)
Aim to use everything/as much as possible from F-Droid (open source, no or nearly no trackers)
Switch GApps for MicroG (The open source implementation of the Google system apps to make things like notifications work, which removes spyware)
Switch your Xiaomi OS (also spyware filled) for a more privacy friendly OS like LineageOS

I'd suggest LineageOS4MicroG:
https://lineage.microg.org/

It's vanilla LineageOS,
with MicroG + F-Droid pre-included.

[–] ori@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I went to almost every website that offers ROMs and couldn't find any official ROMs for my device (/e/? Doesn't work. Lineage? Nope. Graphene? Only works for pixels). I can't install apks outside playstore (So, no aurora store and no f-droid. Newpipe was an exception) Thanks btw

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I see Maps.

[–] ori@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I can't disable it

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[–] nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Netflix made the cut?

[–] ori@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

😞👍 (sadly yes)

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Nice, Jami. Have you been able to find anybody else who uses it?

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I've tried to use it but it's way too flaky. :(

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[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You are using a Chinese phone ... You got bigger issues

[–] ori@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Yea I know 😂

[–] Radiantly9267@lemmy.ca -2 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Same pain! Whatsapp! Unreplacable 😢

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.world/post/21620691

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