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Re:Android phones are sending significant amount of user dat... by Kototama on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:44PM (#28842683)
It's rather good and at some point they managed to have release for my previous phone model when the lineageos stopped!

I used it without their cloud services. Some of the pre-installed apps cannot be removed (like email, pdf readers) which is slightly annoying. They have their own launcher/desktop but it's not that good, it even crashes time to time.

Last time I checked, it was not super transparent which non-FOSS store they used.

Overall I think the experience with LineageOS is better but /e/ comes with MicroG so it's practical if you need a few proprietary apps.

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Re:Android phones are sending significant amount of user dat... by ForHackernews on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @02:34PM (#28855696)
> Last time I checked, it was not super transparent which non-FOSS store they used

I'm pretty sure that's deliberately opaque because mirroring APKs from Play store breaks some ToS somewhere and they don't want everyone getting their Google accounts banned.

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