Hi everyone. I’m making my first post to Lemmy now. I bought a Pixel 9A last month and have been on stock android.
I should have installed GrapheneOS without setting up a Google account, but I’m still not familiar with Linux or other systems, even though I know GrapheneOS is based on the Android system. I’ve been using an iPhone for almost 12 years now. I know how to protect my data/privacy from massive surveillance.
Now I now want to take full control of my pixel phone without Google Play store/service.
My concern is lack of phone screening feature on Graphene OS but I don’t want to have any Google service on Graphene OS. How do you deal without it?
Thank you for your response in advance


I’m talking about access to F-droid. Any changes F-droid and developers make in response to googles changes obviously would also affect Graphene users, but the platform itself is unaffected by Google’s changes.
I understand what you’re talking about. FDroid themselves have come out and said this could be the end of the project, which is what I was alluding to. I would say that has an enormous affect on the platform, and the entire Android ecosystem as a whole.