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The things we need to degoogle our lifes.
| Android is open source. Google Play services on the other hand are proprietary.
Install a "free of Google" Android-bases OS on your smart phone and that should be enough.
>https://copperhead.co/android/ is a good one.
| >>194605
And then don't have access to any apps with internet access cause you need the Google play services for it.
>>194542
They even have to decide on disputed borders, through Google maps. Like they created the official Sudan/South Sudan borders through local elections in the disputed borders area.
Theoretically they have access to all our phone contacts, social circles, things we do in our greetings, kinks, dreams, ideas, etc.
There are even things on android you have to
| >>194619
disable because if you don't, it will track you and save the routes you travel. And through some shit it even records what you are saying on your phone sometimes (Like when you say hey Google, but it picks up on the craziest times). And nobody I know has that shit disabled and they know everything..
They are even co-owner of 23andme, a DNA service. What is this dystopian shit. They even OWN the dna of a bunch of people..
| At this point, I don't even care. Google, Facebook, etc are already forming into some kind of hegemonic world government. What we gotta do (and we might still be able to do) is to democratize them somehow
| >>194619
You don't need Google Play services to access the Internet. For that you need an ISP, which in case of mobiles is the carrier.
| Ain't nobody got time for reading the term of use from app
| >>194697
Like I said, if you want to use apps that use the internet you need to have Google play services for the most part.
>>194701
Which you do when using the Google play services-ergo any Google app or services which requires the google play services. Which is every Google app and most apps that use the internet.
| >vital part of modern life
Nope, they are all just conveniences that normies refuse to part with. There is nothing you "need" on Google play store that you can't get from F-Droid store instead for free. Shittyy Skinner box games and Snapchat do not coins as necessary by any means. If people just had slightly more self-respect we wouldn't be in this mess.
| >>194732
Only Google's apps use Google Play services, maybe in case of a developer using Google's API it would be the case, but not all the developers use the API.
If you're talking about the Google Play store, it's a package manager -- very similar to say synaptic on Debian, so you can use another package manager like F-Droid, for example.
| >>194605 I discovered this OS some days ago, but my cellphone does not support it. We should help with the development of Copperhead and code more free apps, I guess.
| >>196361 that was just an example, you can use any open source Android based OS. LineageOS is also a good one, but security is not their main goal unlike Copperhead OS.
LineageOS supports more phones and is also Google Apps rid, of course. You will find, BTW, that most Android OSes don't ship with Google Apps by default, you have to get them somewhere else.
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| Google has became a very serious thread for all ways of freedom.
They monopolize information, they own the operative system in most cellphones, they have acquired more economical power than most countries in the whole world and we have to find a way to break free.
However, they have "kidnapped" services that now form a vital part of modern life and we need to start creating serious alternatives.
What do you think are the most important things we need to achieve freedom?