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#Android without #Google made easy – with @shiftphones

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(the little gap with "Rooting" aka Magisk will be filled soon™)

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Android without Google: Shiftphones

Like the well-known Fairphones, Shiftphones are modular devices. Right from the shop they ship with no bloat, just the minimal set of Google Apps are installed.
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@koshkodanya @Fenrir Androids CORE is open source, yes (hence called AOSP (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_…). But Google's additions ("GApps" & "GServices") are not, they are proprietary – and thus nobody but its devs can tell for sure what they really do under their hoods. Did you know its Google Services send a ping home every 30 seconds – 2 pings per minute, 2880 pings a day? Or what data is collected regularly and sent along? Not all of us are happy with that 😉
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@yuliyan Who is encouraged? If you know where to find it, you can do it. Nobody says you must/should. If you don't have the need, you certainly should not. But if you have the need, you have the freedom.

Remember: Cars are VERY unsafe compared to that. You can drive your car against a tree, or off a cliff – there's no preventing measure built into it. So why … 🙊 Right. Nobody says you have to 😉 (bad comparison, I know – but exaggeration often helps understanding I've heard)

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@yuliyan Noticed that the "Rooting" section in my article is empty? And I still ended up with a degoogled device – without unlocking the bootloader?

To re-use my example: You need a license to drive a car. Sure, you can drive it without a license – but there are good reasons why you should rather not. Same with rooting 🤷‍♂️ (yeah, no license for that, right – but you should only do it if you know the implications and act accordingly).

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