With the recent changes to how Google is doing things with Android, is it even worth it anymore? Should I just accept whatever version of Android comes with whatever phone or are custom ROMs still worth it? Assuming they still exist after all of this, idk what’s going on.

  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    I really enjoy graphene and the separate user profiles with no google integration.

    If a google app, or something from play store is needed they’ve developed a compatability layer and sandbox for play services and store.

    It’s a lot of security toggles and permissions.

    But not having Google sucking your data at every level of the OS is great.

    Wirh the isolated profiles, you can still have a fully googled system which you can fully lockdown at anytime, while having a pure aosp high security profile.

    It’s fdroid and Izzy/codeberg and ironfox and termux and a few other repos on main.

    I don’t do snap/insta/meta/etc and have no need for apps that drain my soul, anyway.

    Anyway, yeah, google fucking sucks.

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      1 day ago

      I was going to go into a rant about Ubuntu and Snap but then realised you were talking about Snapchat, show how much I use any of those big tech “products”