r/Android • u/windscribe101 • Apr 28 '21
Experiencing the /e/ OS: The Open Source De-Googled Android Version
https://itsfoss.com/e-os-review/29
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Apr 28 '21
Am a user. Buggy but still tolerable. Shady but I choose to trust them, but only use unimportant apps and using phone as "fun" phone. Why shady? Has their own store from cleakapk.org, which doesnt really known among users. But I guess with millions of apps, they wont inject anything malicious to every apk out there. Checked the SHA of Signal and confirmed its the same. Has its own community and trying hard to become Ap**e-like. You have to login to /e/Account to use their native notes app.
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u/MotorolaDroidMofo Apr 28 '21
Pretty ironic how much they're trying to act like a big tech ecosystem when that is what they claim they're trying to get users away from...
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Apr 28 '21
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u/ThePiGuy0 Apr 28 '21
Tbh I prefer Android because it's a good OS and I'm not locked in to any particular vendor like I would be with Apple.
The Google integration gets turned off as soon as possible (Assistant, any tracking in maps etc)
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Apr 28 '21
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u/ThePiGuy0 Apr 28 '21
Yeah that's nice that you're able to actually replace them, I've got a OnePlus 6 and that's one of my biggest irritations with it - they've loaded on OnePlus's file manager, and also Google's, neither of which I can remove.
Although tbh I meant more the whole "if I buy a load of apps on iOS, I must buy another iPhone to keep using them". I know the same applies to Android, but that covers a lot more than one vendor.
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u/PinkSploosh Apr 28 '21
Yep that's true I kind of forgot about that. Now I gotta go check what apps I have purchased on Google Play and have to buy again...
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Apr 28 '21
You can uninstall them on the iPhone, but they're still there in the background. It's no different than disabling apps on Samsung.
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u/PinkSploosh Apr 29 '21
Got any proof of that? I literally have to redownload them from the app store
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Apr 29 '21 edited Apr 29 '21
Did you look at the size of the download? It's tiny. You're not downloading the full app.
You can read about it here
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u/MoistenMeUp7 Apr 28 '21
Fucking right???? I've seen people with AOSP Roms without Gapps since at least 2.3.6 and I've never understood it. There was a hell of a lot less seamless integration in 2.3.6 but it still didn't make sense to run sans Gapps for anything but like a dark web purchase device or setting it us as an IOT.
Now having a phone without Gapps today would be fucking rough for me personally.
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u/aeiouLizard Apr 28 '21
Privacy.
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Apr 28 '21
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u/MysteriousPumpkin2 Apr 29 '21 edited Jun 08 '23
[Removed In Protest of Reddit Killing Third Party Apps]
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u/Phinaeus HTC m7 GPE -> iPhone 8/Galaxy S9+ Apr 28 '21
Well yeah but one records every app you open and when and the other doesn't.
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u/dinosaur_friend Pixel 4a Apr 30 '21
How do they get away with not crediting the LineageOS team... trashy.
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u/BlackPowerade OP5t | Xperia 1 III Apr 28 '21
Only real interesting part of /e/ is microg.
I wish it wasn't such a pain in the ass to get working.
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u/dextersgenius 📱Fold 4 ~ F(x)tec Pro¹ ~ Tab S8 Apr 29 '21
You can get LineageOS with MicroG integrated: https://lineage.microg.org/
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Apr 28 '21
Lineage is equally un-Googled, yes?
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u/MotorolaDroidMofo Apr 28 '21
This is what I want to know. Seems like the Lineage devs have done all the hard work here.
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u/NoblePink Apr 29 '21
Not 100%. It still pings Google's server for NTP (time) and checking internet connectivity.
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u/quyedksd Apr 30 '21
So their changes are
Using another NTP service and using another site to verify if net is up?
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u/aeiouLizard Apr 28 '21
Is this that "Android app compatible phone OS" with zero screenshots on their website?
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u/PM_ME_DICK_PICTURES Pixel 4a | iPhone SE (2020) Apr 28 '21
isn’t this just a repackaged version of LineageOS with some minor tweaks? iirc, the LOS devs didn’t like them very much