[sandov]

It's your phone, and you voluntarily allowed Google to control it.

I didn't want Google to control my phone, so I installed LineageOS.

[SmellyGeekBoy]

I'm also a happy LineageOS user, but it's not like they don't have a track record of this kind of thing either: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/04/05/dont-freak-lineageo...

[pritambaral]

1. Wasn't remotely initiated.

2. Was announced beforehand, not snuck in.

3. Is open-source.

[Dylan16807]

That wasn't initiated remotely, so I don't understand how it's "this kind of thing".

[clear_dg]

But you are one of the few tech-savvy enough to have alternatives. What about everyone else?

[_emacsomancer_]

Without GApps?

[muxator]

Without gapps the phone is faster, and drains less battery.

If you mainly use a browser (Firefox, hopefully) and some messaging & mapping apps, works great.

If you want to use other apps, you'll have to do more testing.

[_emacsomancer_]

Right. I know, and I run my device this way. But my point was just installing Lineage by itself doesn't free you from Google's clutches if you install GApps anyway.

[ForHackernews]

https://microg.org/

[_emacsomancer_]

microG is indeed very cool. (though some apps stopped working with it in the past couple of months).

[sandov]

Without GApps.

[some_account]

Same here. No issues, works great.