QuixoticgeekQuestion for geopolitical nerds and tech nerds.
If you have a stock android phone, it's almost impossible to use it without a Google account. If your nation becomes what is essentially at war with the US, or is under sanction. Does the whole country get their Google accounts blocked, thus rendering their phone almost unusable (without rooting it or reflashing the os etc?).
Sabrina Web :privacypride: 📎
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st I have a stock android phone that I call "partly degoogled". I have disabled everything I could disable that is by google and get my software from fdroid whenever I can (with aurora store as backup). I just don't dare taking the next step and installing a custom rom, because once I tried to do it and bricked its sibling.
For now, everything works fine, including banking apps and payment apps. I'm saving to buy a mudita phone (according to their description, it's degoogled)