🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Get clear with FP3 or send it back

[AnotherElk]

@matthias3

Ich werde vielleicht noch einmal schauen, ob es alternative OS mit weniger Google gibt, die aufs FP3 passen.

In the works, but not ready yet … here’s a topic about what you can do with the stock OS to have less Google involvement …

Google Apps keep reinstalling/ reactivating

Here’s my current take … I try to walk a line between de-Google-ing the phone while keeping the basic Google Mobile Services (GMS, for OTA updates of the OS and some Play Store Apps I still have as APKs for installing) and the Play Store itself (for updates of remaining Google components) from breaking, even if I try not to use my Google account for now. I’m not a big fan of installing downloaded APKs from some website without an automatic update possibility which stores like e.g. F-Droid prov…