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Interested in De-googling, but I would really like a phone with a decent camera, but I can't bring myself to pay $600 for a phone. Advice? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by MadgePickles@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] bbbhltz 1 points 1 year ago

As mentioned, GrapheneOS. Check which models work with the OS. Read the instructions before you buy. I think you still need to login with a Google account the first time to do something but I haven't event used that OS.

https://grapheneos.org/releases has instructions.

From there check out the other OS options.

https://www.sustaphones.com/ is a good place to look but I'm not sure how up to date it is.

If you are not satisfied with the camera choices... Well, I guess you might need to buy a camera too? Not ideal.

A "try before you buy" option would be to use adb or https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater to "remove" the googly bits and see how things go.

When doing research pay attention to the dates of posts and articles as some issues were resolved (banking apps I believe).