F-Droid apps are probably safe from this shit. Unfortunately, most people need proprietary apps too. Banking and official ID apps (for those in countries where the authorities have strongly adopted the internet for identification purposes) come to mind. Or the app from the provider your company chose to report working hours or input expense reports. Or Teams (again, mandatory for many jobs).
If you can’t install those apps on your deGoogled cellphone - segregated in a work profile to prevent them from vacuuming your data of course - then you need a separate cellphone running the full Google spyware stack just for them, which is all shades of dystopian.
My banking app pulled the plug. They messaged me saying “you have a modified operating system”. It seems they can understand that without G-apps installed.
Yeah, those requirements suck. Though most of them can be used as Web apps at least (for now), sadly not all of them. Some provide standalone apk’s for their apps. EU need to break their monopoly on app stores. Otherwise it doesn’t seem good indeed.
I have neither Google Play nor Google Play Services, as I run a deGoogled OS.
However, I fear that I might not be able to escape the Google monopoly much longer.
Does that mean anything if you only use apps from F-Droid?
F-Droid apps are probably safe from this shit. Unfortunately, most people need proprietary apps too. Banking and official ID apps (for those in countries where the authorities have strongly adopted the internet for identification purposes) come to mind. Or the app from the provider your company chose to report working hours or input expense reports. Or Teams (again, mandatory for many jobs).
If you can’t install those apps on your deGoogled cellphone - segregated in a work profile to prevent them from vacuuming your data of course - then you need a separate cellphone running the full Google spyware stack just for them, which is all shades of dystopian.
My banking app pulled the plug. They messaged me saying “you have a modified operating system”. It seems they can understand that without G-apps installed.
Yeah, those requirements suck. Though most of them can be used as Web apps at least (for now), sadly not all of them. Some provide standalone apk’s for their apps. EU need to break their monopoly on app stores. Otherwise it doesn’t seem good indeed.