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[image] Installing Apps from the Google Play Store - would this lead to Google tracking me? Can I avoid this? Install your apps from their app-store /e/ app-store is afaik not yet available.

@Gobs have your original questions been answered sufficiently? If so I’s suggest we close this topic and continue the derived conversation at Living without Google 2.0 - A Google free FP2 as it turned into a general discussion about the G%§$e-free lifestyle and this topic title doesn’t cover that. …

Last year, a Portuguese company won a court case against Google, allowing it, ‘Aptoide’, to provide apps free. I now use Aptoide on my Freephone OpenOS. https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-google-antitrust-aptoide/aptoide-wins-court-battle-against-google-in-landmark-case-idUKKCN1MW2CL

Very interesting discussion here. So I have a question: do apps like signal or threema store the messages encripted on the phone? I they would, also the gobble drive backup on your contacts phones would not be of use to gobble, right? And if we are already discussing different Messengers: does anyo…

Well, Signal once stored them encrypted if you locked the app with a password, but they abandonned this feature about a year ago (Signal is great, but there are some decisions made by Moxie Marlinspike which I don’t understand and in my opinion he has a little too much power over the whole thing…). …

[image] Installing Apps from the Google Play Store - would this lead to Google tracking me? Can I avoid this? do apps like signal or threema store the messages encripted on the phone? [image] Installing Apps from the Google Play Store - would this lead to Google tracking me? Can I avoid this…

[image] Installing Apps from the Google Play Store - would this lead to Google tracking me? Can I avoid this? Can you give a source for this? Use these sources. Ok, so apparently, this isn’t quite true: [image] Does Signal encrypt my messages when saving them to my device? …

Thanks for the sources, will take a deeper look later. But, according to the later link… [image] Stanzi: the pin/pattern is the same one you use when unlocking your device and you can’t change it …this statement doesn’t seem to be accurate. A «random key stored in the Android keystore» is no…

Hello dear community, I’d love to use my new Farphone 2 without the Google stuff that I find soooo invasive in privacy. I am defintly not a geek so I try to find tutorial to do so and got stuck… How to use my phone, the main daily apps without giving my full life to Google ? There’s also a ethical…

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Living without Google 2.0 - A Google free FP2

Discuss The Products

AnotherElk February 17, 2019, 9:18pm 471

Here’s a starting point …