• 0oWow@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I had recently installed Grapheneos on my pixel, with a goal is determining what was responsible for all the senseless Google domains that a pixel normally contacts.

    To my surprise disabling Network for the Google Services Framework and Play Services killed all of the nonsense. The only downside was that GSF has the push mechanism in it also, that many apps use for push notifications.

    If only there were an alternate for push notifications that all apps would use.

    Anyway, Grapheneos runs way cooler than Google’s Malware version.

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    6 months ago

    Ha! That’s one of the reasons I switched to a degoogled android phone. The extra battery life is quite noticeable.

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        6 months ago

        My last phone with standard Google Android had a 5000 mAh battery while the new degoogled has one with a bit more than 6000 mAh I think. Even then I feel the overall increase in battery life cannot be explained with hardware only. Without watching videos or playing games, I only have to charge my new phone every 3-4 days. And I’ve background apps like syncthing running all the time. I’ve just checked there’s actually a few other open source forks of android other than LineageOS. If you’re disappointed with it.

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      6 months ago

      If you use chrome or any chromium based browser, googles still executing any code they won’t on your device at will.

      Even if you don’t have chrome, but an app uses a chromium based web view.