440
edits
Android: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 140:
== Flash a custom ROM ==
Custom
There are many different custom ROMs, focusing on all kinds of enhancements, so it can be a bit hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, however, from the privacy perspective, these are good bets:
*[[File:GrapheneOS Logo.svg|alt=|thumb|GrapheneOS is what Android was meant to be.]][https://grapheneos.org/ GrapheneOS] - Google-free version of Android usually considered the gold standard when it comes to privacy on Android
* [https://lineageos.org/| LineageOS] - formerly known as CyanogenMod, while this project is not specifically focused on privacy, if you simply avoid installing Google Apps you'll have yourself a pretty decent phone privacy-wise
* [https://calyxos.org/ CalyxOS] - developed by not-for-profit Calyx Institute, which was founded by [[w:Nicholas Merrill|Nicholas Merrill]], this is another solid solution
=== Living without Google services ===
Line 153:
* [https://www.apkmirror.com/| ApkMirror] - repository of apps (apk files) ran by folks from well respected Android-enthusiast site [[https://www.androidpolice.com/|androidpolice.com]]
:* you may use [https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/rumboalla/apkupdater/| APKUpdater] to check for updates from ApkMirror and automatically update the apps
=== LineageOS with MicroG ===
If you can't quite manage a Google-free existence, one halfway step is using MicroG on previously mentioned LineageOS. MicroG project is an effort to [[w:Clean room design|clean room]] re-implement many of the services Android apps have come to depend on due to Google's anticompetitive behaviour, such as {{p|[[w:Google Play Service|Google Play Services]]}}, Google's location services and Maps API.<br />
This means you would still be using a reduced set of Google services, but only the ones that are necessary to prevent the app from malfunctioning. Because MicroG code is open source, only necessary functionality is implemented, and any client-side tracking is absent.
* [https://lineage.microg.org/ LineageOS with MicroG] - While you can just take almost any custom ROM and add MicroG to it, an easier solution is simply flashing a ROM from LineageOS with MicroG project.
----
| |||