There’s also the PersonalDNSFilter which does the equivalent while being a tiny open-source app that serves only for that purpose and also somehow still not getting banned from the Google Play store or AdAway which also has this feature or TrackerControl or…

You can’t even change brightness on lockscreen when using a notebook or laptop.

The Simple Mobile Tools collection of Android apps. Forks have been made and are maintained fortunately, but the original autor sold the apps to some company that just adds ads and trackers to the apps to make more money out of it.

I have a good experience with PocketBook.

At least you can still get a functional and minimalist homepage on Firefox by disabling it.

You can do that on Edge too btw.

Interesting to see that vast the majority of the people here use LineageOS.

It’s the more stable and bug-free ROM in my experience.

I am using Google wallet. It works with the Play Integrity Fix Magisk module. You just have to update it from time to time.

Can’t Python be translated into machine code and packaged into a binary? I swear I have no experience in OS development, just curious.

Lawnchair 2 is no longer under development. The development team always starts to develop a new launcher based on the latest stock launcher every time a new Android version is released (so basically every year). This way the app usually never gets past the alpha or beta builds till they already move on to start from scratch. I don’t understand their strategy.

Unfortunately none of these is FOSS.

I use Google Lens and I also have to keep Google app installed. I agree it’s annoying that they just can’t make the apps work standalone. There already is a package that nearly all Google apps dependend on. The package is Google Play Services. Why can’t they implement this into Google Play Services as they do with all the other stuff (quick share, find my phone, location services etc…)?

https://labs.perplexity.ai also works.

To anyone with a TV running Android I recommend SmartTubeNext: https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube

I am not aware of any.

Well the messages app that comes with samsung does support Google’s RCS as far as I know.

Google implementation of RCS (Jibe I think it’s called) is proprietary. A third party client has to be explicitly allowed and supported by Google.

Did you flash a custom ROM? Maybe it will work with a custom ROM.

EDIT: Your phone uses Mediatek processor, so it’s not going to be well supported. I recommend you to stick to locked bootloader and just live with the phone as it is.

https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html

Did you unlock your bootloader? Some apps just scan for Google Play SafetyNet or in some other way to check whether you unlocked your bootloader or rooted and if they think you do they will vaguely state you are rooted.

Other’s concern about your phone being infected are justified and I recommend you to try whether a dedicated root checking app thinks your phone is rooted. These usually don’t lie.

Regarding your rooting situation I always rooted the lazy way. Renamed magisk.apk to magisk.zip, flashed it and it always worked for me. But I rooted only 2 phones in my life really and this is not the recommended method by magisk developer.

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