DEGOOGLED
TO CREATE A MODERN PRIVACY-RESPECTING SMARTPHONE - NOW YOU ARE THE
SMARTER ONE. I'M USING THIS MODEL NOW AS MY DAILY DRIVER AND IT'S THE
BEST PRIVACY OPTION. NOW BASED ON ANDROID 11 WITH THE APP ISOLATION FROM
MAC AND IMEI IDENTIFIERS BUT ALSO WORKS OUT OF THE BOX. ALL MY BANKING
WORKS, NOTIFICATIONS WORK (BUT I PREFERRED NOT HAVING THEM) LOYALTY
CARDS WORK MOBILE NETWORK APPS WORK.
I also install a custom suite of apps of your choosing that are privacy and security focused.
I
have found only a very few apps that won't work without GSF (google
services framework). These apps are GSF-dependent so you don't want
them anyway!
Did
you know that both Google and Apple use WiFi SCANNING (Triangulation)
AND NOW BLUETOOTH SCANNING (from contact tracing) on your phone to
locate and track you AND THOSE NEARBY every second that you have the
phone with you? This still happens even when you have denied location
access, have WiFi turned off and even when you think your phone is
entirely switched off. It is not.
Did
you know that if you've been to a protest this tracking (and SIM card
imsi-catchers such as Stingray - hence the helicopters or heavily packed
rucsacs) have been used to identify your presence there?
THE
NEWEST THREATS ARE AMAZON, RADIOWAVES AND ULTRASOUND. Your Bluetooth
which is a radiowave - (that's now always on for apple and google thanks
to contact tracing whether you have an app for that OR NOT!) has been
hijacked without your knowledge nor authorisation to become a MESH
NETWORK. Capable of collecting and sending data between all kinds of
devices (speakers, TV's, doorbells, lightbulbs, thermoststs etc.)
WITHOUT THE INTERNET. Bluetooth LE can reach half a mile. Don't forget,
you are paying for the power to these devices too! Amazon's network is
live NOW. It's called Sidewalk. You can disable your permission in your
account (supposedly) BUT can you be sure it's turned off. Apple will do
this with airtags too. A DEGOOGLED DEVICE IS ABLE TO KEEP THE BLUETOOTH
OFF and so is excluded from these networks.
Did
you know that the Facebook app (among others) accesses this data -
again without your explicit PERMISSION to track you and personally
identify you and those you meet? CREEPY EH? I can personally confirm
this has happened to me.
Now
you know why Google Street View cars were sneakily scanning for all
broadcasting WiFi routers as they mapped the world. This was unlawful in
the EU, Google were fined Billions, the EU kept YOUR compensation.
Today the scanning is done by your device - see above. Now you know the
real reason that phone batteries are no longer removable.
What's
even MORE DISTURBING is that these companies will sell your
identifiable data to anyone, including the massive aggregators like
PALANTIR and JIGSAW (also Google) whose datastore was the real source
for Cambridge Analytica and Aggregate IQ.
The only
way to be sure to stop it is to remove the Google Android Operating
System completely and leave the iPhone at home. This operating system is
called an AOSP that is the open source version of Android. You can
still run any android app but if you want privacy you'll need to avoid
the obvious ones. For example Facebook, Google maps and so on.
The
benefit it has over other privacy operating systems is it's
compatibilty with Android Apps. This means that you don't need to worry
about the Google's Android system spying - because it's not on the phone
at all and the apps don't get unnecessary permissions to the phone's
functions because they are isolated from them.
It
uses alternative app stores and spoof accounts, again to avoid tracking
you by account sign-ins, device linking (device fingerprinting) and
user profiles. I use one of these myself right now. I can watch videos
without ads, encrypt the whole device and set it to wipe automatically,
message securely, call without being listened to for key words, block
ads on all apps, use maps without tracking and search-recording, remove
meta data from images and many more cool things.