Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]

Re:Android phones are sending significant amount of user dat... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @05:09PM (#28845111)

I've tried Osmand and found it way too slow/janky for everyday use (since it has to render the tiles locally and doesn't seem to pre-render for scrolling).

Newpipe loads videos much slower than the official app and occasionally fails completely (likely because YouTube changed something).

F-droid (regular, non-root install) shows me notifications to update apps, then when I tap them, I get a "there was a problem parsing the package" - this is a bug that has remained unfixed for over 5 years (https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/669).

It's not impossible to use a FOSS phone, but it's truly painful.

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Re:Android phones are sending significant amount of user dat... by salusinarduis on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @05:53PM (#28845532)

If you don't like Newpipe you can use Youtube Vanced which is basically a pwned version of the native Youtube app. I've had some stutters with Newpipe but overall I like it.

Osmand really isn't bad, sure it's a little bit slower to render but we're talking maybe 500-1000ms on a Pixel 3a.

Regarding F-Droid you're right it is quite buggy, but thankfully once you've got the apps you want you don't really need to use it except to update.

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Re:Android phones are sending significant amount of user dat... by hkt on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @02:19AM (#28848793)

Skytube is also a good YT client available on F-Droid

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Re:Android phones are sending significant amount of user dat... by dr_hooo on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:01AM (#28851530)

As mentioned elsewhere, Organic Maps provides a much smoother OSM experience (fork of older maps.me version)

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