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Aaaah, I love grapheneos!!

Berlin!!!!

I rather would have a device that is not as locked down and bloated as Samsung's to run grapheneos

I use a couple of counter measures and I am quite happy since years and hope to be as invisible as possible for tracking companies. I have a samsung phone, this is what I did:

• on your pc install adb
• when switching on the phone for the first time, dont connect to wifi, dont make or use a google account, press skip and all the fake "warnings" until you see your launcher
• download a browser apk of your liking and install it via browser
• activate developer mode for apk (you find the instructions online)
• via command line remove all samsung bloatware
• uninstall all google apps except the absolute must haves like "google play service" and so on
• go into settings - apps in your phone and deactivate all remaining google apps that you dont dare to delete via adb
• install an alternate app store via your newly installed browser
• install wireguard and setup connection to your vpn at home
• on my homeserver install pihole or adguard home to block google out completely
• set a different search engine like qwant or so in your browser
• install all the security add ins in your browser to your liking

As a result, I am almost google free, except probably for samsungs trackers. Sometimes apps or commerce websites dont work as they use google captcha or things like that.

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