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Thoughts on Nothing Phone 2 running with e/os? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to degoogle since Google has been most annoying so far with S21FE. Was thinking of getting Pixel 8a but due to mixed reivews I was looking for other phones. Thoughts on this? Would be also nice if I can get some opinions from people who have the phone as well.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (13 children)

Afaik /e/OS isn't completely Google-free. It just uses some anonymization stuff to make Google services a bit less invasive and I think it has proprietary software too. For a complete Google-free experience you probably want something like LineageOS or GrapheneOS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

Aw shucks, the porter moved on from Lineage to develop more on e/os

Any alternative custom ROMs that are generally considered complete Google-free other than those 2?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Idk about completely Google-free ones. Most of vanilla ROMs (such as crDroid, ArrowOS, CherishOS etc) do have some pre-included fixes for Google apps because most of the users flash them and I think they use the proprietary version of Monet theming (there are 2 versions of it). Usually LineageOS is what you go for if you want a completely vanilla ROM. I heard they're considering adding some fixes for Gapps too but I don't think it's going to be anything bad or proprietary

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Should I be concerned if I am not going to be installing Google Apps (or gapps) or microG?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Depends on the exact ROM (I think they're only really tested with Gapps) but usually you should be fine. It might be relatively easy to identify a user of ROMs like this because of mismatching device fingerprints (done to unlock Pixel features such as unlimited Google Photos storage and high FPS limit in games) though

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