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It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox
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Same, I deeply regret leaving. Mostly happened due to peer pressure in uni, where everybody was thinking google is cool, and you had to use a lot of google products for classwork. Now google has their tentacles attached all over my online life, and switching feels like preparing for a divorce. Though at least I’m not using Android anymore
you could've just degoogled your phone, if it's comatible with any custom ROMs. android itself is open source, but the preinstalled apps and services are not. that's where the spyware is. (we will never even know how much spyware is embedded in IOS, because it's closed source)
No expert at all, but isn't it the case that the phone is then somewhat marked as not trustworthy, making it impossible to use banking apps and such?
from what i understand, it's possible to re-lock the bootloader and use some kind of security patch to be able to do that. it's definetely possible.
unfortunately not all custom ROM are able to relock. You can off course use Magisk with Sygisk and then you can use your costum rom phone for bankig apps and google wallet. I am using one myself - https://lineageos.org/