I checked it out. Has a nice UI but suffers the same fate as the stock GrapheneOS camera. Lacks basic features such as panoramic photos

Here is one brief video explaining some of F Droids security issues: https://youtu.be/lAbgeJau3eE&t=305 piped link: https://piped.video/watch?v=lAbgeJau3eE&t=314

Also to correct you, Google Camera does not need any Play Services installed. The reason I brought up Play Services is because I would need it to be able to get RSC working on Google Messages which I eventually plan on doing once RSC support is added to iOS.

Tf are you on about? I AM looking for a foss camera option. But it is practically non existent. Besides 2, Open Camera and Libre Camera, both of which have a UI from 2012 and Libre Camera lacks a ton of features.

And despite that, GrapheneOS comes with its own open source camera, but there is a reason nobody uses it, it has no features just like the other very limited open source camera apps (Open Camera excluded)

Yea I have heard of that too. Unfortunately I don’t know what other Camera app I would use. Open Camera has a good amount of features but I can’t stand the UI, and the GrapheneOS camera is very bare bones. I have tried some other proprietary camera apps but none of them seem to be as good as Gcam and for obvious reasons.

Wow, what a great timing for me to switch from Tuta

the way signal and some privacy friendly apps do it is they send a blank notif first to wake up the app and then send the notif directly to you

they can push a new TOS to the app store mandating that push nitifs be handled the same way signal handles them.

once again apple marketing making it SEEM like they care about your privacy

Firefox on desktop has an option when copying links to copy without site tracking

I love the interface and tried using it for a bit but it is just not functional. By that I mean, the app does not have any notifications. So, if you have the setting on the mode where it does a pop up notification instead of taking up ur entire screen, you literally will not be able to answer or decline the phone call because no notifications pop up. This also means that while you are in a call, if you swipe out of the app and go back in, you won’t be able to pull up the current call to end it or mute or put on hold or any of that.

Although I am running GrapheneOS on a Pixel and that might be the problem but I doubt it because I saw similar problems on the Github issues and the Play Store ratings are not that good.

Edit: this issue is only with version 1.6, version 1.5 does send notifications. But version 1.5 does not have the option to not make the call take up the entire screen which is a bummer.

came here to say this

Do you use Arch btw?

I understand all the downsides of RCS. I am not saying I will drop everything and proudly use RCS, but the fact of the matter is it is a massive improvement over SMS in terms of privacy and security and just quality. I want to know how I will be able to do this using Google’s Messages app on a currently deGoogled phone running GrapheneOS, while providing the least amount of data possible (ideally would like to avoid installing sandboxed Google Play services)

Privacy

not having gapps is a MASSIVE privacy improvement as it is

I do eventually plan on switching over to OpenSUSE when I have more free time on my hands for a full fresh setup and to learn a new distro, but as of now I am a busy college student so I am not looking to switch until the summer

Vivaldi is a great power user browser, which is generally what the Linux audience is. Firefox is pretty good for power users too and it takes the cake when it comes to privacy and security, but Vivaldi just has those exclusive features that you just can not replicate on Firefox.

this or eternity?

I believe no. I’m running Firefox with arkenfox user.js and when I take this test https://www.bromite.org/detect it shows a new and different fingerprint if everytime i close and reopen the browser. Feel free to try it for yourself.

And while Brave may be private from outsiders, it is far from private from Brave Software themselves and I wouldn’t trust them if I was honest with you. If you want an alternative chromium based browser, check out Vivaldi. They don’t have aaaas many privacy features built in as Brave does but you can still get very private and obviously tack on Ublock origin and a customized DNS block list like you normally would with any other browser. And they are significantly more trustworthy than Brave