You can disable it in settings.

It’s not necessary to have the app installed, but in reality, it is.

I had tried to mitigate it by using Android’s private spaces, but I now use it in a web browser on my phone but I don’t get notifications

Do normal phone calls work fine? I remember last time I used graphene I had problems with those, but it might just have been the phone itself.

You can deny camera access, and the EU has proposed the same and is set to implement age verification by the end of 2026.

Thanks a lot for the response, it’s very helpful.

I have verified that tow apps have implemented the Play Integrity API. I believe a third one is going to implemented soon. Yes, sadly, the government apps need to be on my phone but luckily i think you can disable background usage.

Thanks for thanking the time to response and give a detailed response.

I sadly need to receive notifications from Facebook Messenger (I don’t give it access to anything other than notifications, but I know it can still collect a lot of data) on my phone. Notfiactions only works properly if you have Google Play Services :-(. Facebook Messenger is like Imessage in the US or WhatsApp in most of the rest of the world.

Do you have Google Play Services installed? If not, how do you deal with notifications? And can you buy things from the Google Play Store? I need AltStore (I know it’s a super privacy-invasive app but i need it).

But i think you are right about them not killing customs roms android will probably continue to stay open source.

Maybe it’s just me overthinking the thing with Google Play Integrity API, because as of now, I have two apps that use it, and I can easily have them on a second device. But if Google Play Services got restricted in the same way, I would not be able to use the device and would need to get back to stock Android. I have tried daily driving GrapheneOS without Google Play Services, but it was not feasible.

Just cureise do you make music (“My producer”)?

Sorry for the long response.

I will think about switching to GrapheneOS anyway and just have tow devices it would be possible and mabye not as annoying as i first thougt.

I don’t have the money to switch to an iPhone if the apps I need for my day-to-day life on the go begin requiring the Google Play Integrity API (I think some of the apps may do so in the future, like the app used to send money in my country).

Btw, thanks for pointing out the work app. I might actually be able to use it in a browser (didn’t think about it because I hade it in Android private spaces).

Yes it’s proton. It sounds like you have an iOS device. What’s your experience with Proton on that, if you have the apps installed?

Facebook Messenger is also cross-platform, but not great for privacy. Unfortunately, I need it at the moment - not so much for close friends. Less close friends I still want to stay in contact with and groups for activity’s if you join a socker team the communications is gonna be on Facebook messenger.

And also, I heard that GrapheneOS (and other ROMs) will only receive non-critical security fixes every 3 months, which sounds like a long time. And looks like Google will do more and more to kill custom Roms. The thing I fear is google will require google play integty api to use Google play services.

They accept mullvad gift cards.

That’s not true; he has never expressed support for Trump. The tweet people tark about

I wish there were more dumb phones that supported signal and/or RCS (with E2EE support).

It’s worth noting that as of 2022, Unity owns 73.5% of the company IronSource, which develops the spy/“intrusive bloatware” app

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It’s not an alternative, it’s more of a floss implantation, but it still contacts Google servers

Everything published on the fediverse, everyone can get their hands on it.

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Have been playing around with it for a bit and it’s AMAZING.

The video are amazing. It’s entertaining and explains everything so it’s easily understood.

For anybody like me who, for some reason, can’t watch it without being signing into YouTube, its archived and watchable on archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20220920131510/https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=aNBqjKFS1_c

A pro of Sourcehut is that EVERYTHING can be done by email. So, if you use their issue tracker and want other people to be able to submit issues, they can do it without making an account.

Proton Drive works great for me. They have a free tier, so you can try it out.