For de-Googling your phone, paradoxically, buy a Google phone and install #grapheneos

For gmail and Google search, there are plenty of alternatives.

If you make it part of your buying decisions then you can have all of these things. Free open-source software is a big part of it, but just not buying the latest and most expensive model also helps.

My (electric!) car doesn't have any of this frippery, for example, because I bought cheap. My computer and my phone don't because they run free open source software (Debian Linux, #grapheneos)

It can be done.

CONTEXT:

privacy laws, including court cases, only recorgnize passwords as part of your right to privacy. so if you lock your phone with biometrics, DHS/TSA/ICE can force you physically to unlock the device. not so with passwords… until now.

prosecutors in Atlanta want to use this case to completely take away the right to privacy with passwords.

this would open EVERYTHING ―including emails, bank accounts, health care records―, to fascist predation.

#privacy #GrapheneOS #laws #passwords

sounds like the web is about to get a lot more annoying to use for #grapheneos users and others using #android devices with """compromised integrity""", people without smartphones, people using smartphones with other operating systems, etc.: support.google.com/recaptcha/a…

google's new "mobile reCAPTCHA verification" will require you to scan a QR code from either an iOS device with the reCAPTCHA app or an android device with up-to-date google play services.

EDIT: this is part of google's new "fraud defense" system, and is (seemingly) intended to be used for more "important" things like purchases rather than just e.g. comment sections. however, there's nothing stopping site owners from using this thing everywhere