• Masura@lemmy.mlOP
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    4 years ago

    so its like you use the playstore but you dont need google account ? feels weird but why not … Its just i dont want to use any of this at all but my friends are on signal and university is using zoom … well. sad story.

    I would really appriciate that they let us get rid of Gafam and google stuff i dont know what they’re about but they’re scary , in every single place of your phone wich you cant remove.

    last time i made atttempt to delete every single thing that had google in the name with adb but that was not good idea lol . Now sometimes i feel like " smartphones or to complicated ill just forget about using it have a computer on linux and a phone. then i think that newpipe is so important in my life . then , …ow forget it

    thanx for letting me now about aurora :)

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      4 years ago

      Aurora Store is that, you use the Play Store without having to create a Google account. If you really want a phone with no Google apps it’s better not to mess with adb go remove them, you’ll likely end up with a half working device. See if you can get LineageOS installed on your phone (it doesn’t come with any Google apps by default). Also, someone else on this thread recommended another app to download apks, it’s called APKGrabber, also found on F-Droid. I haven’t tried it but looks promising.

      Edit: just be careful with LineageOS, if you do it wrong you may end up with a bricked phone.