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Advice on removing Play Store, Play Services, and Gemini from Android
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Would flashing a vanilla ROM be an option?
Maybe. If my provider would accept it. Do you mean an Android version without all the garbage?
I am unable to use Graphene or Lineage with my provider. I might need to switch.
Yes, that.
How might one go about doing this? I can't afford to buy a new phone but I really want to be free from the corpo bs.
Phone systems can be somewhat volatile (is that the word?), so while the process isn't as hard as tutorials paint it to be, if you're worried about bricking your device for tinkering, I'd suggest leaving it aside for now.
Or, stretching a bit, if you have the money to at least get the cheapest phone you can find (usually old/used ones), you can use it as a burner/throway phone to test and get familiarized with the process first.