Got slated for saying it last time this came up and probably will again this time, but I’ll say it again anyway… just go completely open source. The longer you stay with schmoogle the harder it gets to exit the trap. Besides… supporting the developers and commercial businesses that make all this happen is the only way FOSS can survive in the long term.
Thats a great idea and I would love too. But there is no FOSS app as alternative to my banking apps, or the secure go plus app which I need to make any bank transactions
Like I said before, FOSS users should support companies that actively support open source. If you look at the list of compatible app’s you will find several banks that do. I put the Lloyds entry up as it was the one I moved to several years ago when I was told by my previous bank I could only download their app from the spyware playstore. Now that online banking is the way to go for almost everyone I suspect there will be many alternatives offering compatible app’s.
Hey… I get it. It took a while for me to get out of the trap too. It’s not easy. For a while I compartmentalised by having two phones. A FOSS phone (Sailfish OS XA2), and my old Oneplus 3t with Oxygen OS to handle the Screwgle problem. The oneplus was wireless only although I did buy a one off burner SIM so as I could get around account verification and set up with a spoof Gapp’s account in the name of Robin B’stard which I also used for wotsapp and any other account that was known to compromise privacy.
Which doesn’t work for anyone who needs to communicate with friends, family and / or colleagues who use proprietary messaging solutions such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger etc. As a wise person wrote
Fortunately I ditched FB and Instagram long time ago and since March I’m completely Zuck-free after deleting WA.
People can write me on Signal, Threema a postal letter or they can wait till we meet in person
But I still have to use som proprietary apps because I need them and there is no open source alternative.
So I have to find a good compromise between the apps I need and not corrupting my privacy.
There’s always SMS too. In the early days I used to get SMS’d fairly often by wotsapper’s asking me if I knew that someone called Robin B’stard had cloned my account.
That discussion, again? It has and never had (in the past) something to do with the original post, so please create your own thread if it’s that important to you.. Repeating this discussion again and again and again.. will just fuck up everyone (including me) who just wants to read replies to the initial question
Like it or not it has plenty to do with the original post and as time goes on it will become more and more relevant as the screw in ‘Screwgle’ is turned tighter, something we already see happening with their recent announcement regarding Android releases. It will finally end up as either you set up a dual SIM phone with dual boot OS’s or you eat the google sh1t. All you have to do is get used to it. Sometimes the easiest ways are the most effective. Certainly for the OP, that as I understand it, only wants to run his banking apps on it, has to be the best way to go.
As happy I’m for input I have to agree with rtfm98.
Your answers don’t have anything to do with my former question.
If you have some real answers, our input is greatly apreachiated.
Otherwise please open your own thread.