Looking for some help with my Oneplus Nord CE3 Lite. I have had this phone for a couple months and looking to harden this phone make it a safe privacy friendly phone and avoid the constant monitoring and spying and being tracked and monitored. I want to limit the surveillance and monitoring best i can with this phone. Not interested in CUSTOM ROM and there isnt any available for my phone right now. So what is my options without that and how do i make this a safe phone?

Thanks

  • Bri Guy @sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Definitely avoid using Google products as much as possible. Use Aurora and F-Droid to install apps.

    F-Droid at least will have basic open source apps that replace things like your SMS messenger and phone launcher as examples

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        1 year ago

        You can disable a good amount of the apps, does that prevent it from sending data?

        Google Play Services is probably the only one that you’ll still have to leave on unfortunately. Full privacy isn’t going to be obtainable this route

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      1 year ago

      What VPN should i use for this phone?

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        1 year ago

        Doesn’t matter, as VPN proxies don’t significantly contribute to privacy protection when you’re running frigging Google Play Services and whatnot.

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        1 year ago

        From my experience Mullvad is the way to go for privacy. They’re only about $5 USD a month and have a great app available from F-Droid.