I’m about to remove google from android… everyone should do the same. make android open again
Make Android Linux Again
Yes it’s been almost twenty years, I’m still salty about it.
I installed Termux for reasons I’ve forgotten, and was surprised to discover the base is a distro called Alpine. Learned more about this seldom talked-about fourth Linux distro. I tell you, if nothing else it’s nice to be able to install apks I’m familiar with on PC, and SSH into my server directly from the phone
In my journey to remove myself from as many unethical companies as possible I was hit with one of several hard lessons, that even if I remove my dependency on corps like Google, I may not want to sacrifice services who themselves depend on it. For example, I use Home Assistant. I value several (external) community made integrations and therefore use HACS. Well, HACS is a frontend for all these extras, which are exclusively hosted on Github. So I ‘can’t’ delete my Git account, rather keep it around for API access.
I have some other services like Shopify, who I don’t really trust but who are frequently the only adopted sale point for many merchants, who themselves are ethically sound or, subjectively, the ‘best’ source. Who better to host a throwaway email account for services I reluctantly connect with than Google, aha.
What I’m saying is, I’m finding total deGoogling a challenge, and I wish you the best of luck. At least there’s alternatives to the Play Store; Aurora, F-droid, and ApkMirror||ApkPure