Hey guys, the eu and especially germany are coming up with a ton of new north korean like laws. I don‘t want to take part like a regular sheep anymore.
Which apps do you 100% recommend to get rid of google etc?
Also,my phone got stolen once already, I heard about apps that let you reset your phone remotöy via a message or something like that, how are those apps called?
If you have any tips when it comes to privacy, tell me!
Thank you :)

Do the apps work? PWAs as far as I know don't do notifications.

I have a pixel 7 do most apps work and does Google wallet work?

Recently I came across a new browser built on top of Vanadium named before Helium now Titanium browser: https://github.com/jqssun/android-titanium-browser

What do you think about it? Is it same in case of security as Vanadium but with added extensions support that is really important for me because of adblockers etc.

Buddy showed me a custom privacy phone running on a Pixel and it has a few features I want to know if GrapheneOS can match.

1. Decoy phone / hidden OS

Phone looks completely normal until you dial a specific number in the dialer which opens the private environment. Is there a way to do this with GrapheneOS profiles or something similar?

1. USB wipe timer

If you plug it into a computer you have 30 seconds to enter a passcode or it wipes. I know GrapheneOS has USB set to charging only by default and has auto wipe on failed PIN attempts but is there something that specifically triggers on a USB connection?

1. Auto wipe on failed PIN attempts

Does GrapheneOS have this natively? Pretty sure it does just confirming.

I already know GrapheneOS does full disk encryption, MAC randomization, auto reboot after inactivity, sandboxed Play Store and supports Orbot for routing everything through Tor. Just trying to figure out if the decoy dialer feature and USB specific wipe timer are possible because those are the two things I cannot find a clear answer on. Everything else GrapheneOS seems to match or beat at a fraction of the price.

I'm determined to switch to Graphene once the new Motorola Razr flagship hits production, but I do not carry a wallet at all. Tap to pay is how I pay for everything currently, and I'm trying to figure out if there will be a way to continue to do so with Graphene next year.

I am okay with putting in effort, btw. If there are specific workarounds like using Shizuku or something similar, I am fine with doing so.

Any advice is helpful. Would also love to know if this is something the Graphene team is working on.

Asking here in case this is a security feature - I threw dropped my phone last night and when I picked it up, it has the Graphene logo like it was rebooting. It loaded ok, but Wi-Fi and Bluetooth were disabled and wouldn't turn on (BT specifically kept crashing, though I didn't have a chance to check details).

The battery was very low, so I plugged it in and went to sleep. Woke up a few hours later and it was totally dead, so I moved it to my fast charger. Since then, it's been completely unresponsive (no display or power button response) but seemed to be mostly ok before I went to sleep.

Tldr; did I trigger some kind of fall protection feature in Graphene that may have bricked the phone somehow? Just trying to figure out what specifically might be broken and if I can repair it.

So I'm using mullvad bit of course it seems I have to login on each profile so say I got 3 profiles it's like using 3 devices as far as mullvad can see, I've set a flint 2 router which is great but obviously no good when out the house, is this just how it is or is there a way to set vpn to cover the entire phone.

Firstly, I apologize if this is an insanely simple thing to understand, but I wanted to double check here.

I'm just trying to know how much telemetry occurs if someone were to download, for example, those 'woman freezing please fix her house' or 'save the king from the lava' games.

I get that it likely grabs info from Google Play, but I just want to make sure that if I disable all permissions that it isn't going to log all of the scary stuff like location data (or does it grab that general info from Google also?)

I think I just want clarity to how sandboxed apps actually act when connected to Google Play.

Thank you!

Vanadium version 151.0.7922.47.0 released:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/151.0.7922.47.0

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/40605-vanadium-version-15107922470-released

Can we use GrapheneOS on other phones than Google Pixel? Looking for better custom ROM options for my android.

Default one will only do British and American English, unexpected keyboard constantly spams me with a button for "click to install a dictionary for English (Canada)", and when I press it, the only dictionary available is American English

Any Canadians here have something they use?

Annoyingly, even the ones with proper Canadian English support always seem to prioritize American spellings in the predictions (e.g. typing "col" will predict "color" and requires typing all the way to "colou" before "colour" is ever suggested.

Just DL'd GOS and starting to find the apps I'd like.

I was going to get ente photos, and I have watched a video where someone was using a spoof (I think that's what itls called) email. It's a service that allows you to put a random email and details in, but forwards it to your actual email address. Would you recommend doing this for all apps that require a signup? And regarding payments - is there a way of being anonymous with it? Ilm UK-based, so was thinking privacy. com might be an option.

Also, I have downloaded the sandboxed playstore (used a burner account), as well as youtube morphe, but not signed in - would the app have collected my IMEI #?

Thanks in advance.

GrapheneOS Info app version 7 released:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Info/releases/tag/7

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/40606-grapheneos-info-app-version-7-released

Does using different browsers for different purposes provide a meaningful improvement of privacy?

I am mainly wondering about web apps. The profile I use 99% of the time doesn't have any Google Services installed. WhatsApp, installed with the APK from their website, is the only non-privacy respecting app on it. Everything else is FOSS or FOSS-adjacent (like FUTA apps).
Anyway, that also means that I use web apps for social media like Reddit, X and Instagram.

Would it improve my privacy in any way if I would use different browsers for each of those services, or am I overthinking it?