To be honest, im more than Tired of this whole “Mimimi, Google is restricting installing Android apps, so its worse than iOS now Mimimi”
So heres 4 Options, how to Opt out of Gservices, and therefore not have this whole Debacle of Verified Apps, in varying degrees of Difficuilty from “3 Year old iPad kid can do this” (Aka install Via Browser) to “You have to Copy 3 Text snippets and Paste them”, to even “Order Online”.
And before everyone starts Crying, there are more than Enough Apps and Alternatives to the Propriatery stuff youve been using until now. No, you dont need a Burgerking App, no, you dont need an App for Kaufland. They are Selling your Data, and thats the only reason they Exist. If you consent with having your Data sold, you have no reason to opt out of Gapps anyway.
- Install Via Web Browser.
- https://e.foundation/get-e-os/
- https://calyxos.org/install/ (Currently not Availible for a few Months)
- https://grapheneos.org/install/
- Install Manually (aka. Paste 3 or so Lines into cmd)
- https://e.foundation/get-e-os/
- https://calyxos.org/install/ (Currently not Availible for a few Months)
- https://grapheneos.org/install/
- https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
- Adb and Magisk MicroG Module (Please use uBlocks Badware Filter list, as there are many fake Sites)
- https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-remove-google-play-services-from-android-without-root-via-adb-shell-more-privacy-for-your-malware-phone.4720085/
- https://magiskmodule.gitlab.io/magisk-modules-repo/microg-installer-revived/
- Buy a Degoogled Phone
The problem is that most of those custom ROMs are based on Android, so they inherit the bad parts of Android they don’t specifically take care to remove, and they don’t support most devices, so I’d have to buy a new phone for instance to use one of them, and Linux phones still lack the app support, feature support, hardware goodness, and widespread availability to be used as primary devices for people.
Also the government supports centralised control of the internet, with laws like the ‘Online Safety’ Act and Chat Control, so we can’t trust them to save us against the evil corporations.