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i've been using my Fairphone 5 without any google account since last december, so about 5 months now i guess? Not fully de-googled yet, not even a custom rom - just the stock OS, but not signing into an account. Most importantly, this means no Play Store for me - i get the majority of my apps from Obtainium (directly download + install APK releases from the app developer's source repository) and f-droid. The apps i use most by far are messaging apps like Signal and Telegram which offer direct downloads and easy updating without play store, Organic maps for navigation, breezy weather, Immich (google photos replacement, self hosted) and etar (calendar, but its kinda clunky). oh and keepass2android-offline for my password managing needs, which is synced to my homeserver using Termux (linux running on android, with certain differences/limitations). For sacrificed functionality: my bank's website works just fine on mobile browsers. for the 2 factor auth, it uses something called "Mobile ID", seemingly a standard different from sms or app-specific ones, i'm not sure how widely available it is but it works great for me. Chatgpt says it's used in a couple of European countries.
For buying public transport tickets, i used the website for a while, but in my country the website is kinda shitty compared to the mobile app, it takes like 15 clicks to get a ticket where on the app it's 3. so i went to apkmirror/apkpure (ad-infested websites that offer direct download of APKs without google acc) and got the app there - this is both a security risk and inconvenient, but in this case it works for me and i can buy tickets with the app without problems. |