play-services-plugins VS privacyguides.org

Android is basically open source at the bare minimum. To use Android in a meaningful way, you need Google Play Services, which are proprietary and have root privileges on most Android phones (allowing Google to collect a lot of private data easily). The only ROMs I know of which utilise Sandboxed Google Play Services are GrapheneOS and ProtonAOSP. microG exists on CalyxOS and /e/ OS, but it will never be as compatible as Google Play Services.

One problem with relying on emulation is that Google has moved a lot of functionality from the open source Android layer to Google Play Services, and they obviously wont publish that on someone else's platform.

https://developers.google.com/android/guides/overview

The main privacy concern with most Android devices is that they usually include Google Play Services.

Here's an overview: https://developers.google.com/android/guides/overview

Yeah, frustrating I know. I actually made a PR 5 months ago (based on another) to introduce the ability to add libraries if they don’t have it included in their POM. Our use case was that we used a web view with local JS files that we needed to attribute to.

Look for an extension that changes your user agent. For instance, if you're using Firefox, it can tell fool the server you're talking to into believing that you're actually on an iPhone running Safari. I can't vouch for any that you should trust so you might want to run any that you find past more knowledgeable people before you trust it. Rabbit hole 👉 https://www.privacyguides.org/

Aplicativos de código aberto e focado em privacidade - https://www.privacyguides.org/

For privacy-related advice, you might want to review our FAQ and/or visit www.privacyguides.org. You might also want to try using Reddit’s search function to see if there were posts on topics similar to yours.

I highly recommend using https://www.privacyguides.org and actually avoiding PrivacyTools all together. PrivacyGuides is essentially the successor the PrivacyTools, with the entire former team behind PrivacyTools founding and running PrivacyGuides. You can read about the history and founding of PrivacyGuides here if you're interested.

Good place: www.privacyguides.org and r/privacyguides.

We've had a Discourse forum for a while, and actually replaced all links to Reddit with links to Discourse a few months ago.

NextCloud: I intend to use Nextcloud as a Google Drive alternative anyway, and it seems to retain the photo and video structure of my phone gallery. However, I've read conflicting information about its end-to-end encryption, with sources like privacyguides.org stating that its E2EE app isn't production quality and may lead to data loss.