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Phone + OS review: Google Pixel 9a and GrapheneOS (typekmatus.blogspot.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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(translated) Everyone has a phone. Whether it's an iPhone, where you can't install a better YouTube Music client without ads, or an Android, where you have pre-installed apps from three different manufacturers plus ads for new phones popping up as notifications. Anyone who reads my articles regularly knows what I'm talking about. Today, after a very long time, we're going to review a phone from Google, on which I installed GrapheneOS.

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[–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

You are NOT tied to Google play services on gOS. An OPTIONAL sandboxed version of play services, without the system level privileges, is offered.

Also, consider the reasons for degoogling. For many, it is privacy. GrapheneOS is currently the only player on the field with any serious level of security.

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    Well you are tied to Play Services if you want to run most apps, which all require Play Services to some degree. I'm not saying you can't use GrapheneOS without Play Services, of course you can, just like AOSP, your phone just won't run most apps (well). My points remains: GrapheneOS only supports Google Play Services while there is a great non-Google alternative available + they only support Google devices when there is a whole marketplace full of other devices. In the area of deGoogling they do poorly

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