I recently asked for recommendations elsewhere regarding a cost-effective phone with the best camera that’s a reasonable price. Almost unanimous recommendations for a Pixel a couple years old. I’m a total noob for privacy stuff but joining Lemmy under the dbzer0 instance, I’m feeling more motivated to learn more and get out from under the thumb of major corps as much as possible.
Can you have a Pixel and still de-google? It seems unlikely… Any advice?
They may be seeing the same thing I am, pixels have an unlockable boot loader unlike Samsung so that’s what’s being recommended.
MadgePickles, you can degoogle an AOSP rom that’s compatible for your device, but you’ll need to be able to get access to the boot loader. You can also run things like graphine or lineage os. If you don’t want to get that “heavy” into it there are ways to “reduce” google on any android phone, but with a stock rom, you’ll still be googled.
Check out xda-developers forum to find the rom/community you like, then pick a phone. To me it’s all about what you want and then get the hardware under it.