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I have Brave as a secondary browser. I run Lineage, where I have not loaded any version of Gapps. My goto browser is Bromite (https://www.bromite.org https://

by chasil 4y ago

I have Brave as a secondary browser. I run Lineage, where I have not loaded any version of Gapps. My goto browser is Bromite (https://www.bromite.org https://www.bromite.org), which I have configured default incognito and otherwise high security. I have loaded Magisk, then the modules for MicroG: https://www.reddit.com/r/MicroG/comments/shmpng/confirmed_safetynet_passing_on_lineageos_microg/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MicroG/comments/shmpng/confirmed_sa... Wouldn't it be great if all Android users could wake up to this tomorrow? It would be an interesting day. I should try e/OS sometime. The guy who maintained Mandrake Linux is in charge.

jqpabc123 4y ago
I run Lineage Even without GApps, Lineage still includes links to Google. e/OS had a list of some of these at one time. They remove these links and include MicroG in the default install. Others may disagree but in my opinion, it is a pretty good compromise between security, privacy and usability.
- chasil 4y ago
  I think the links are very few, the main one being captive portal detection for wifi logins. In exchange for this, Lineage delivers the monthly security patches first, mostly guaranteed to be in place by the 15th of every month (load the first nightly published after that date, and it will be bundled).
  - chopin 4y ago
    Admittedly, e/OS is slower than that but I get updates pretty regularly (much faster than on the Samsung my SO has).
  - the_third_wave 4y ago
    ...and that captive portal link can be replaced by the user if so desired (which it is by me, I don't see why Google needs to know when I try to connect to any network): settings put global captive_portal_http_url http://captive.example.org/generate_204 settings put global captive_portal_https_url https://captive.example.org/generate_204 settings put global captive_portal_fallback_url http://another.example.org/generate_204 Or, for Android <6.0.1 settings put global captive_portal_server captive.example.org No Google, no cry. Of course you need to replace those domains with some of your own choice, I use my own server with a bit of nginx configuration to provide this functionality: server { listen 80; listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on; server_name captive.example.org; # Apple CNA location /hotspot-detect.html { return 200 '<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Success</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Success</BODY></HTML>'; add_header Content-Type text/html; } # Apple CNA location /library/test/success.html { return 200 '<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Success</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Success</BODY></HTML>'; add_header Content-Type text/html; } # ChromeOS, Android location /generate_204 { return 204; } # Windows location /ncsi.txt { return 200 'Microsoft NCSI'; } location / { return 302 http://www.example.org/; } }

by chasil 4y ago

jqpabc123 4y ago

I run Lineage Even without GApps, Lineage still includes links to Google. e/OS had a list of some of these at one time. They remove these links and include MicroG in the default install. Others may disagree but in my opinion, it is a pretty good compromise between security, privacy and usability.

chasil 4y ago
I think the links are very few, the main one being captive portal detection for wifi logins. In exchange for this, Lineage delivers the monthly security patches first, mostly guaranteed to be in place by the 15th of every month (load the first nightly published after that date, and it will be bundled).
- chopin 4y ago
  Admittedly, e/OS is slower than that but I get updates pretty regularly (much faster than on the Samsung my SO has).
- the_third_wave 4y ago
  ...and that captive portal link can be replaced by the user if so desired (which it is by me, I don't see why Google needs to know when I try to connect to any network): settings put global captive_portal_http_url http://captive.example.org/generate_204 settings put global captive_portal_https_url https://captive.example.org/generate_204 settings put global captive_portal_fallback_url http://another.example.org/generate_204 Or, for Android <6.0.1 settings put global captive_portal_server captive.example.org No Google, no cry. Of course you need to replace those domains with some of your own choice, I use my own server with a bit of nginx configuration to provide this functionality: server { listen 80; listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on; server_name captive.example.org; # Apple CNA location /hotspot-detect.html { return 200 '<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Success</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Success</BODY></HTML>'; add_header Content-Type text/html; } # Apple CNA location /library/test/success.html { return 200 '<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Success</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Success</BODY></HTML>'; add_header Content-Type text/html; } # ChromeOS, Android location /generate_204 { return 204; } # Windows location /ncsi.txt { return 200 'Microsoft NCSI'; } location / { return 302 http://www.example.org/; } }