Removing Google from smartphones
summary
Claims a working fork of Android that strips Google trackers and replaces proprietary pieces with open alternatives, swapping Google connectivity and NTP endpoints, adding DNS and DNS-over-HTTPS options, and substituting Google Play services with microG. Offers an app catalogue with about 80,000 apps, a Privacy Center that detects and can block trackers, fakes geolocation and IP, plans end-to-end encryption, publishes code on GitLab, runs on roughly 200 phone models and hosts ~40,000 cloud accounts.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:40Smartphones and Google
- 4:09Googles business model
- 5:50Protection of personal data
- 7:32What is Apidays
- 8:54Clean Android
- 13:33Open Source Apps
- 14:17Privacy Central
- 14:50Fake geolocation
- 15:50Endtoend encryption
- 16:30Availability
- 17:09Privacy Concerns
- 18:26Online Services
- 19:14QA
- 20:38Missing parts
- 24:41Who are your users
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