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Re:Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors by colordrops on Friday November 19, 2021 @04:00AM (#29275189)
Is there a support group or discord for degooglers? I did it a month or so ago and am still dealing with the ramifications. Most recently I used App Warden to disable all the spyware libs (including Google's) shipped with WeChat. They detected this, and banned my 10 year old account with all my friends and relatives. Been struggling for two days trying to get it reactivated, cuz it will be extremely difficult to travel back to China without it. I am not blind to the irony of keeping Tencent on my phone as I remove Google.

What would be really helpful is a database of apps, similar to the WINE project, maintaining how well they work on a de-googled phone, with a table, columns being "no root", "rooted", "with microg", etc, and a WINE style rating of how well it works and what problems you'll run in to.

You would know which banking services, etc don't work well or at all and could choose your establishments with foresight.

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Re:Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors by T4iga on Friday November 19, 2021 @08:39AM (#29276991)
There is a GitHub repo[1] with a very limited list last time I checked. That the best I could fined in my degoogled time. The Techlore Youtube-Channel-Community (yes, I realise the irony) also seems like a reasonably healthy place to start. There is also a bunch of telegram groups with NoGoolag[2] at the center. I would not recommend for the 70:30 mix of conspiracy and tech support but they are at least technically very knowledgeabl, and sometimes helpful, even considering their almost 'religious' technical beliefs.

[1] https://github.com/techlore/plexus

[2]https://t.me/NoGoolag

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Re:Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors by jmnicolas on Friday November 19, 2021 @05:04AM (#29275560)
Sorry I'm not aware of anything like this. I went "all in" : I just installed GrapheneOS on my phone, Linux on my desktop and stopped using anything Google related (except YouTube that I watch in a dedicated browser).
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Re:Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors by ranger_danger on Friday November 19, 2021 @06:17PM (#29283831)
The Techlore matrix/discord group is a great place for this.
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