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a Pixel 8 + graphene os (Looking for advice) (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 days ago by Ksk3829@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hey.

My phone is a Pixel 8A Graphene OS Phone. I Want to make this phone a Hardended phone. A safe phone. Privacy friendly phone. Not a Watched or tapped into phone. Basically limit the spying and intercepting and get control of the spying mechanisms that may be at play.

The phone has Sandboxed google.play services.

(grapheneos) and 1 profile (owner)

The phone has a kyc sim card. ( currently no way out)

Thanks.

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[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Same config, I have been using my 8a with graphene since Jan. Works great.

I actually put Google Play and the few apps that use that in the Private Space and just use clean apps in my owner profile. There are a lot of different ways to divide up apps between Owner Profile, Private Space, the 31 separate user profiles, and work profiles.

As for app sources I use mostly Graphene, FDroid, Aurora, and Obtainium stores and tools. I only use Play Store directly in my Private Space. There are pros and cons of course.

[–] Ksk3829@lemmy.today 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What VPN should I use on my pixel 8a grapheneos phone?

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Whatever https://www.privacyguides.org/ recommends. I am not a big VPN user. I care more about using good apps and prefering the web browser over apps and configuring that.