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Best de-Googled Android ROM for non Pixel phones? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know that Graphene OS is the best OS for privacy/security on a Pixel, but I have both a non-Pixel phone. What is the second best ROM in this case? I know that Lineage still has some Google telemetry since it's meant to be as close to AOSP as possible and not actually de-Googled. Maybe /e/ OS then?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Nothing dodgy about it. /e/OS uses microG which handles the push notifications. The deGoogling is in the ROM itself. Big difference. I have/had numerous ROMs with microG. On some I just don't enable Google device registration nor Cloud Messaging. Folks can do the same on /e/OS. I don't use/need push messaging anyway. I do believe they're looking into the other push systems.

One thing you may notice, if ever reading their forum, a majority of the users are regular Joes/Janes wanting to general apps that don't support FOSS push systems anyway.

/e/ doesn't seem to be targeting the hardcore privacy crowd but provide an alternative to the Google ecosystem. As mentioned previously, an intermediary.