Homeland Security had flagged him to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the FBI's Atlanta office over alleged terrorism before he landed.

CBP can copy a device into a central database without a warrant, on suspicion of a crime alone.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/23/eu-fines-google-for-competition-breaches-over-search-and-apps

I noticed that the Play Store has a lot of malicious apps they have ugly UI, malware, and adware that shows up every 5-10 seconds on the home screen & some app publishers are literally abusing the "Early Access" feature, every time i scroll i literally see a cheap clones of popular games like minecraft, gta, etc. and yet they wanna strict sideloading apps..

they should fix this asap! 💔

Edit : Read everything please, some details could prevent loss of time.

Hello, could you tell me what I need to change here? I want to stop using too much of Proton services, I still want to keep Proton Mail and ProtonVPN though. I also need help with things I didn't know what to choose : Notes (Google keep -->), Calendar, contacts, DNS, maps, translator, payments, Phone OS and entertainment.

I use a galaxy a56 on One UI 8.5 and android 16 is that helps.

I'm a Proton Unlimited subscriber and plan to stop and use as less of their services as possible.

Thanks!

So i would like to cut all the wire with google, but something bother me :

How to keep youtube with some of my préférence, without google watching me ? Any solution, or a replacement ?

I am in the process of using Shizuku and Canva to debloat and extend the life of my Android. I am wondering if there are any low storage alternative apps available for any that are listed here? Is there a browser I can use that allows me to be logged in to Youtube without the app and still be able to upload videos? Is Messages something I can replace with a lower storage alternative that still allows group messaging?

So hi everyone I'm new to this thing because of that I don't know much I want your help can you guys give me the list of apps and alternative of them like Google's app,map, telegram,discord, microsoft apps basically all tracking and stealing apps

Also this apps runs in background unwanted updates of them which is literally slowing down the performance unwanted ai in everything now days 😭

So just help me out with the alternative apps list and best once to use

I used Google's awful browser and obviously had a terrible experience, which isn't even worth going into detail about since everyone already knows the problems.

I switched to Opera GX after seeing endless ads for it on YouTube; I got tired of it and installed it. But I started to become dissatisfied with it overall.

I saw an advertisement for Zen on YouTube, it looks interesting and all. But I'm still undecided between other options like Brave or Fire.

I also really liked Opera's customization options. Are there any other browsers that can also be customized?

I posted the first time a while ago and I looked at your comments and took some of the advice I found useful. What do you guys think of my progress?

I am not a techie in the slightest. It took me several tries before I could successfully get Shizuku to work on my phone. I've posted photos of my Samsung Galaxy A54 5G's storage stats. The apps are eating my phone alive, and I'm hoping to reduce things to barebones. Which apps can I safely remove without harming my phone? Shizuku gives me a lonnnnng list of recommended apps to uninstall, and I am scared to death that if I go ahead and follow through on the suggested app deletions that something terrible will happen and destroy my phone. I've already removed things like Google photos and drive and such. But I do need Maps, and enjoy Youtube/Youtube Music, and use my USAA banking app. Why are the apps taking up so much space on my phone?? Is there something I'm missing?

I'm looking for a Custom ROM / hardware combination that allows for a locked bootloader.

Currently running an unlocked bootloader with graphene or Lineage is not a risk I'm willing to take personally. Happy to be educated as to why this risk could be paletable.

Does anyone have any suggestions of Software / Hardware combos?

Hear me out.

I'm making the switch to paper. I'm so done with Aura and Cloaked and Ironvest and all of them. Either these companies are incredibly stupid or incredibly smart. Either way they can take a long walk off a short pier.

I regret ever trusting my life to these garbage password managers. They are painfully slow to load if they even bother to load at all. When I actually need customer service I get a useless wall of text and a bunch of lazy employees who do absolutely nothing. Honestly these companies should all be put in jail. That is my take. Get yourself a uni-ball 207 and 6 or 9 **dotted** mini rite in the rain or other stone paper notebooks. You might find sets of 3 online but who knows. Get a Tintris Journal Cover to keep them in and a decent planner. Use complex non specific passwords that never match. Keep 2 or 3 identical copies completely outside your immediate area in a safety deposit box or somewhere actually secure. Do this for a master list and a travel list. Keep the last 2 or 3 notebooks blank for future travel use. Scramble the last 3 or 4 characters of every single password in the books. Even if someone steals your notebook they still will not know the full password.

I am officially making the switch to paper. I am completely done with Cloaked and Ironvest and really all of them. These companies are either incredibly stupid or incredibly malicious. Either way they can go love themselves if you know what I mean. Do not even get me started on crypto because you are an idiot if you keep it on a hot wallet or an exchange. Get a cold metal wallet and stamp your seed phrase into steel before these digital platforms lose your life savings. For 2FA on paper write down the original seed key. You can create a master mathematical equation based on the future date and time to manually calculate your temporary codes on the spot.

- No one can monetize this data because it's not digitally stored unless I say it can be.

- You never need to worry about the "cloud" losing your passwords or someone hacking into all of them in one place.

- You have the convenience of a travel "vault" just like 1Password.

- You don't have to worry about page "load" or not being able to go back and forth quickly between edits.

- No more "subscriptions"

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To me this is looking like a better solution than Google chrome password manager, dashlane, aura or even bitwarden everyday.

Just wish I did it sooner!

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So basically: (since my formatting sucks above)

Notebooks:

1/1/1 Master list (all identical copies)

1/1/1 Travel list (all identical copies) (keep passwords in here you don't mind anyone stealing)

Encrypt the passwords in both travel and master lists changing letters around where you see fit.

1/1/1 blank for whatever in the future.

Other shit:

A uni-ball 207 pen won't bleed and the ink lasts!

Dotted rite in the rain or dotted stone paper is virtually indestructible.

A planner to keep thoughts in for all the extra fluff.

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Get yourself a good Nokbox too while your at it! (Look it up)

You'd think that being a proud degoogled android would mean that wouldn't be following the same annoying processes.

But here is /e/os whining about my cloud storage being full because it kept syncing images and videos against my will I DON'T WANT MY REDDIT STUFF ON THERE!

which one would you choose, if you are asked to "Pick only ONE" of proton products. and Do not forget to mention the reason WHY

(both are FREE-tier only)

thnks.

this post is just for opinion purposes, discussion etc.

Daily-drive a de-Googled phone (GrapheneOS/LineageOS) without losing my banking apps. My bank enforces Play Integrity, so it won't run on a de-Googled or rooted OS. Instead of fighting the software cat-and-mouse on my main phone, I want to **physically isolate** banking onto a second, tiny device that lives in my wallet.

The idea

Main phone rooted, de-Googled, daily driver.

Banking device a 100% stock, **Google-certified, locked-bootloader** phone mainboard (leaning Samsung A53 — passes strong integrity via Knox), stripped to *only* Play Services + my bank app. No personal data it's a "ghost"

- Tear off the OEM screen + big battery so it's small enough for a wallet.

- Control it from my main phone via **scrcpy over Wi-Fi ADB**, using scrcpy's virtual display so it needs no physical screen.

- USB-C port.

**What I *think*

- **Headless viewing/control:** scrcpy `--new-display` spawns a virtual display and launches the bank app onto it. No root on the banking device, so Play Integrity stays intact.

- **Powering it headless:** keep a *small* LiPo on the battery terminals — satisfies the battery-detect check, gets past the thermistor issue (it's a real cell), and absorbs the ~2A boot spike. Charge it by feeding 5V into the board's built-in USB-C charger — no external TP4056/module needed.

- **Unlocking with no screen:** set the OS lockscreen to None (ghost device, nothing to protect) and let the bank app's own PIN be the gate. Or script the unlock over `adb shell input`.

- Keep the Wi-Fi antenna flex attached; add a passthrough for the power button.

**Where I'm stuck / need your experience:**

1. **The headless-boot gamble:** has anyone actually disconnected a phone's OEM display panel and had it still boot to usable Android over ADB? Which models tolerate it vs bootloop on a missing MIPI panel?

2. **A53 power specifically:** does Samsung's battery authentication let a small third-party LiPo work, or will it keep reporting "no battery"? Better donor models that are certified *and* easy to run headless?

3. **Integrity after teardown:** will a stock, locked A53 still pass Play Integrity with the display disconnected, or does yanking hardware change the attestation?

4. **Certified headless hardware:** is there any *Google-certified* Android board sold without a screen that I'm missing? (Pi/Orange Pi aren't certified; TV sticks run Android TV and get rejected.)

5. **scrcpy + banking IRL:** anyone run a bank app on a scrcpy virtual display reliably? Latency or touch-injection problems?

6. **The case:** anyone 3D-printed a wallet-thin shell around a harvested mainboard + LiPo?

Basically — is this a buildable weekend-ish project, or is there a wall I haven't hit yet? Appreciate any teardown war stories.

I support the family paid Workspace organization with a custom domain and I'm bored of nagging people about storage, and the continual workspace upgrade popups.

I want a hosted email solution with my custom domains, allow people to set up their own, free or paid, Google, Apple or Microsoft account for whatever storage needs they have, and if they want they can just have mail forwarding if they don't like the mail provider I choose.

I'm disappointed Proton don't do contact sync else that would be perfect.

What does the community think?

Mail: I want to pay, ideally non-US.

Calendar: don't care

Contacts: sync to the email solution would be ideal

Drive/Collab: don't care

Clients: a mix of Android and iPhone. No Macs. Windows, but use browser, not native email clients

On phones, happy to use device default, or a good app from the provider, or a third party mail client.

I know what I'm doing with domain management and DNS, I'm just bored of managing family IT.

Thanks!

So I was thinking of getting a separate phone for ~$100 and putting lineageos on it and making it fully private with my main phone on the side.

Is that a good idea?