Ok, so apparently, this isn’t quite true:
They still encrypt your messages, but with another method. Nevertheless they abandonned the passphrase and changed it to pin/pattern. But the thing is, the pin/pattern is the same one you use when unlocking your device and you can’t change it, so this feature is essentially completetly useless.
Thanks for the sources, will take a deeper look later. But, according to the later link…
…this statement doesn’t seem to be accurate. A «random key stored in the Android keystore» is not the same thing as the user PIN. But anyway, I need to study the cryptography architecture of Signal to re-learn what’s this feature for (it must have a purpose).
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 confusion in my head to go for a Fairphone and still having to use Google everywhere…
Thank so much for your help/tips/ideas!
Here’s a starting point …
My fairphone runs fairly google-less. In particular, there is no Google search, no “Ok Google”, no Google maps, no Google PlayStore, no Google mail, no Google calendar, no Google account, no Google Apps (GAPPS).
My recipe:
If a particular app is not listed on f-droid you give yalp a try. This app provides anonymous access to apps on google-play without a google account.
I am quite happy with the above set of apps. Some work even better than the google equivalent…
Thank you for sharing your G-free settings ;D.
A privacy/Security issue about Duckduckgo found this Blog (in German).
Thann si much KaiMartin for your réponse and recipe ! I’ll definitly try this out ! I was afraid to root the phone as many people say it could damage the phone. But now I know how to do it clean 
A thorough guide about living without Google can be found here:
There is a critical difference between having to yield data when legally required and doing business based on user data.
Anyway, I recently switched to Metager. The society that runs this service is based in Germany and so is subject to European law. I tend to trust European data protection more than the US american counter part.
You are welcome!
My desktops and laptops all run Linux exclusively. Regular android with all the parts that are declared inaccessible to the user feels rather strange and limiting to me. If “rooting” your android were so dangerous as corporate information suggests, then why are all the rooted by default Linux systems out there virtually free of malware?
The guy who writes this blog keeps recommending StartPage, even though they literally pay G00gle and he also wrote that it’s owned by an advertising company now, therefore I wouldn’t trust him blindly (as you shouldn’t anyone).
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