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You're probably right many apps are not worth the risk, but I use quite of few single-purposes apps, my phone would be semi-useless brick without them and I can
by saiya-jin 8y ago
You're probably right many apps are not worth the risk, but I use quite of few single-purposes apps, my phone would be semi-useless brick without them and I can buy old school Nokia for just calls and SMS.
Heart rate (from optical sensor), free topo maps for outdoor, various transport apps (checking when buses/trams will go realistically based on their GPS), car navigation, watching BBC news, translate, use a freakin' calculator, browse phone file system, control my A/V receiver over wifi. And so on and on.
For every app removed I would lose an useful functionality that helps me quite often, for some there ain't any good replacement.
I think smarter is to not any sensitive data in the phone, consider it hacked out of factory and act accordingly.
- timonovici 8y agoTry Lineage on a phone with F-Droid as your app repo: much more trustable - though not completely, plenty of blobs floating around, the modem OS, and is safe to assume there are non-public bugs out there. Also, none of the crappy preinstalled apps, no google spyware, no touchwizz madness - just a clean, vannila Andoid experience, just as the original developers intended.
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoI have gotten Lineage going on a couple of older phones for friends, I am skeptical that it and F-droid are inherently much more safe than stock + the Play Store - except that they're less tempting targets for exploitation. Which I suppose is worth something, still.