I’m planning on flashing LineageOS on my phone to debloat and to degoogle, and additionally to increase overall privacy but apparently from what I’ve heard here that it’s not private enough or even at all?

I know about it being less secure because of the opened bootloader and the higher chances of you rooting to achieve what you want with a degoogled phone, but beyond that (especially privacy-wise) I don’t know anything.

I’ve seen a video on how to degoogle it further, but surely it isn’t all I need to do.

I need some education.

Unfortunately my phone is so obscure that it isn’t supported by literally anything, but fortunately there’s an unofficial port of LineageOS I found on Telegram, and that’s the one I’ll be using. So if you’re thinking of suggesting another custom ROM, you’re out of luck. Also you can’t make me buy a Pixel - that thing ain’t supported in my country (5G and others) and it’s hella expensive as well.

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.ml
    172·
    1 day ago

    Hey PragmaticIdealist

    The video guy is talking bollocks: plus he has about 50 crypto links to pay the wanker.

    Honestly, I have install lineage since 2018 and installed CyanogenMod way before that.

    He talks about “Removing bloatware Google packages” from Lineage, there are no bloatware google packages in lineage.

    I have just plugged my oneplus 5T with lineage installed into my laptop, and typed this into my terminal: to give me a list of all the packages installed on my phone.

    adb shell pm list packages -s >oneplus5-installed.txt

    I have 213 packages installed. THERE ARE NO GOOGLE PACKAGES installed.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Captive Portal is simple to disable using adb. Its not scary.

    I have 5 family phones with lineage installed

    I have just checked Captive Portal on all 5

    db shell settings get global captive_portal_mode

    all 5 phones the output is:

    null

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    you can change your dns rather than rely on your carriers DNS. I use Mullvad DNS

    https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

    The eu has public dns servers:

    https://european-alternatives.eu/category/public-dns

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    not much info on itel-p55-5g on xda

    https://xdaforums.com/t/i-want-a-vbmeta-img-and-boot-img-for-itel-p55-5g.4737042/

    if you want to find out about Lineage, use their forums or use the https://xdaforums.com/ as above and have a good look around to see what people say.

    • PragmaticIdealist@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      20 hours ago

      The video guy is talking bollocks: plus he has about 50 crypto links to pay the wanker.

      Really. Most of the videos I’ve seen of him are really solid. Plus, I do think the tips he gave are good (that’s why I linked it in the first place) besides this:

      He talks about “Removing bloatware Google packages” from Lineage, there are no bloatware google packages in lineage.

      Yeah if you didn’t install GAPPS you wouldn’t get any, well… Google apps in the first place. Besides this part, I do think the others make sense because they are making connections with Google.

      Captive Portal is simple to disable using adb. Its not scary.

      Yeah.

      Also I’m wondering about whether to disable this or not, like wouldn’t it break functionality?

      you can change your dns rather than rely on your carriers DNS. I use Mullvad DNS

      Yeah I’m also using Mullvad DNS everywhere since I discovered it in like 2024.

      not much info on itel-p55-5g on xda

      Yep, I already looked everywhere. The Sourceforge repo and the Telegram group was all I found.

      • infjarchninja@lemmy.ml
        31·
        20 hours ago

        Hey PragmaticIdealist

        I dont like him because he seems to intentionally pick controversial subjects just to get clicks.

        I mean. how controversial can you get by using the headline “LineageOS is apparently not private?” and then go about trying to prove your point by not referring to Lineage.

        I can only assume that loads of non techy people would be put off by his claims.

        Lineage does not send any information to google nor connect to google. However the apps you choose to install could connect to google. Especially if you use closed source apps.

        if you stick to open source apps via Neostore, droid-ify and F-droid basic you should be fine.

        ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

        It is safe to disable Captive portal if it is already enabled on your phone.

        I have disabled it on my aunts and uncles phones, they dont use lineage or any AOSP roms.

        My aunt likes the idea of free wi-fi when shes out. she has a list of all the in-store wifi, in my local shopping centre, already stored on her phone, this means that she automatically connects to whatever wifi she is nearest to.

        Lineage phones have captive portal disabled by default.

        Looks like you are half way there.

        A good VPN is also a good choice

        Keep at it.