Option 1: leave everything enabled, & everything works with full spyware enablement too
Option 2: disable everything, but forget basics like mail notifications, yet still resign yourself to invasion from irrevocably disabled services
Option 3: the middle ground. Just kidding, disabling only what you truly don’t need is wildly opaque, and painfully slow: options are split and hidden wherever possible. Forget any “apply to all” graces being given by King Google. Disable the wrong thing, and break a seemingly enabled feature.
Also love how some options are given during setup, while others are only informational: “visit settings later to change this thing - hope you forget!”
So, what’s left: Option 4, root your phone and hope Magisk will work when you need to use your bank app?
I just want my cell provider to spy on me because physics. (Govt banning sale/sharing of that data would be epic, maybe some day in the far future.) Extra spying in the shadiest ways is bad and Google should feel bad.
Review of Android 12
This is option 5!
The default install is really clean, you can run all the Google services you want, you can install them in their own user account, or profile, and not share with other accounts. You have full control. The only thing that doesn’t work is tap to pay
Android Device Policy (ie: the spyware that is work profiles) doesn’t work either. An important FYI for folks whose personal device doubles as their work device.
What do you mean work profiles don’t work?
I’m using a work profile on grapheneos right now.
Well that’s interesting because what this individual posted about is the exact behaviour I experienced trying to get my work’s Slack connection set up.
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1662-work-profile-sandboxed-google-play-services-android-device-policy-help
Not sure what you did to circumvent this.
Ahh. I see what you mean. Android device policy, doesn’t work. But setting up work profiles with shelter does work.
So giving a third party control of your phone doesn’t work on grapheneos, which makes sense.
Isn’t work profiles the opposite of spyware because it insulates everything else on your device from company resources?