Graphene OS- deGoogle your phone (from SELF 2023)

[Michael L]

Hello NLUG,

One presentation at the Southeast Linux Fest in Charlotte last weekend was on using Graphene OS to deGoogle your phone.  I only caught part of it, but what I did hear made sense.  Some of the videos are up already; not seeing that one yet, but here's the website:

https://grapheneos.org/

[glyphrider]

This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIFBN390clQ) gives a nice overview of Graphene. I've tried it, but not at great depth (my work requires a lot of apps on the phone that I wasn't down for "finding" outside the google app store).

[Michael L]

The Graphene OS video by tuxsudo is up now, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EP24r61lkA&list=PLvG1nXgsl22EzbF9yjaOacne0eOGyJNUe&index=9

This is the conference YouTube page with soon to be all (or most) of the videos,

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvG1nXgsl22EzbF9yjaOacne0eOGyJNUe

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[Vincent Brown]

I've heard good things about GrapheneOS. LineageOS is another popular degoogled Android image. 

Google wasn't getting enough data on users from the search engine so they created a browser to spy on everything you browse and not just what you search for.

They still weren't satisfied with that amount of data, so they provided entire operating systems (ChromeOS and Android).

They have reached an Orwellian level of stalking and surveillance. 

For more info, see: The Creepy Line - Full Documentary on Social Media's manipulation of society

The Android project itself is Open Source. Most phone manufacturers bundle Google's spyware with their OEM images but you can put Open Source Android images without Google on many phones. Unfortunately, many app developers still write dependencies on Google services so not all apps are available or work.

This would be a great topic for an upcoming meeting.