To be honest, im more than Tired of this whole “Mimimi, Google is restricting installing Android apps, so its worse than iOS now Mimimi”

So heres 4 Options, how to Opt out of Gservices, and therefore not have this whole Debacle of Verified Apps, in varying degrees of Difficuilty from “3 Year old iPad kid can do this” (Aka install Via Browser) to “You have to Copy 3 Text snippets and Paste them”, to even “Order Online”.

And before everyone starts Crying, there are more than Enough Apps and Alternatives to the Propriatery stuff youve been using until now. No, you dont need a Burgerking App, no, you dont need an App for Kaufland. They are Selling your Data, and thats the only reason they Exist. If you consent with having your Data sold, you have no reason to opt out of Gapps anyway.

  1. Install Via Web Browser.
  1. Install Manually (aka. Paste 3 or so Lines into cmd)
  1. Adb and Magisk MicroG Module (Please use uBlocks Badware Filter list, as there are many fake Sites)
  1. Buy a Degoogled Phone
  • mat@linux.communityEnglish
    37·
    3 months ago

    While degoogling is accessible right now, what worries me is that all of these projects are 100% dependent on Google’s whims because they use Android as the upstream. Same reason why I don’t use Chromium browsers: yes, they can patch over things, but they can’t fight the direction of the upstream project and they are powerless if the upstream stops publishing commits / source, like Google seems to be moving toward. Additionally, what “the big distros” aka stock ROMs do to prevent FOSS apps being installed means a much much smaller potential userbase for them. I develop an Android app, and (while I don’t have analytics) I don’t find it unlikely that at least half my users are on stock roms that would lose access to my app with this policy. It’s much less motivating to develop something when I know less people will benefit, and especially knowing I’m supporting only custom roms that are 100% beholden to Google. Degoogling is a good first step. I’ve been on Lineage for many years now. But I believe that the step that will truly make us independent is moving to Linux phones.

  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    The problem is that most of those custom ROMs are based on Android, so they inherit the bad parts of Android they don’t specifically take care to remove, and they don’t support most devices, so I’d have to buy a new phone for instance to use one of them, and Linux phones still lack the app support, feature support, hardware goodness, and widespread availability to be used as primary devices for people.

    Also the government supports centralised control of the internet, with laws like the ‘Online Safety’ Act and Chat Control, so we can’t trust them to save us against the evil corporations.

    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      You’re lucky your bank doesn’t require a phone. Nationwide pushes you to use a banking app on mobile, and if you want to use the website anyway, every time you’ll have to input a passcode and an SMS verification code, or use a physical card reader.

    • Luffy@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      3 months ago

      I do their same too, but unfortunately, my Bank requires a costum 2fa app for any Kind of online payments and online banking, but fortunately dosent use Play protect, so I can just make a profile with the apps + sandboxed Gservices

      I mean, I could use Paypal since it has the Option for SEPA and handle all my online stuff, but I’d rather just use my card instead of paypal