Quote: (10-09-2017 09:07 AM)Selembao Wrote:
Quote: (10-08-2017 10:31 PM)The Beast1 Wrote:
Google designed Android to serve you ads and this was baked in very early on. Take that into consideration for your next device!
I disabled all pre-installed Google apps on my phone. For all other apps, I withdrew most permissions unless they are really needed. I use a VPN as well.
I'll buy a new phone in a few weeks (probably with high end specs), but most manufacturers only produce Android with a lot of bloatware.
While I'm not necessarily looking for a crypto phone, I'd like to own a phone with additional privacy layer.
What would you recommend?
There's a lot more than just the built in apps that you need to disable in order to discourage the Android tracking. Google play services, the app store, and some more I can't recall.
To be honest, if the OP is really not using his phone for email, shopping, or banking then he doesn't really have much to fear if his phone does get hacked which is still a rarity. If you do get a virus, the easiest way to get rid of it is to factory reset the phone. Even with root, this will take the problem away.
My advice? Stick to a phone manufacturer that has a good XDA community or updates their phones very regularly via official channels (Blackberry's android offering). And also just like Windows in the early 2000s, don't go downloading and installing random APK files.